Nikita Khrushchev

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The U-2, Cuba, and the CIA</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Sixty years ago this month, the Soviet Union orbited a “man-made moon” whose derisive chirp persuaded Americans that they’d already lost a race that had barely begun.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Nikita Khrushchev’s son recalls a world in which the United States was the Evil Empire, and the Soviet superpower was a carefully maintained illusion.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Nikita Khrushchev’s son remembers a great turning point of the Cold War, as seen from behind the Iron Curtain</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from the Kremlin</span></p>

<p>Much of what we know today about the leadership of the Soviet Union during the Cold War is attributable to the late son of Nikita Khrushchev.</p>