Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is considered one of the most eccentric heads of the USSR. He is reminded of the widespread imposition of corn planting from the Black Sea to the White Sea, the pogrom of avant-garde artists, the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, the shoe with which he knocked on the table at the UN assembly. Probably much in his life was invented or misunderstood. For example, the ill-fated corn, which, after a trip to the USA and visiting the corn fields of Garst, he, shocked, ordered to be planted from the southern latitudes to the Arctic Circle. Actually he didn't. It’s just that in those years there was still an echo of Stalin’s discipline walking around the country, in which any order from the leader was perceived as a guide to unconditional action. And Khrushchev, seeing the corn wealth, simply thought that this was one of the opportunities to help the country, which had barely gotten out of the post-war famine. He sincerely dreamed of building communism. And he even named the dates - the eighties. He gave people housing, the same “Khrushchev buildings” that are still alive. Gagarin took off with him. And most importantly, there was a matter in his life that outweighed all his actions and misdeeds, and turned the history of the country: the exposure of Stalin’s personality cult and the return of a good name to hundreds and hundreds of thousands of illegally repressed Soviet people.