1. The Bay of Pigs
He joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in 1918 and served in the Red Army as a junior political officer during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). ... In 1929 Khrushchev moved to Moscow to attend the Stalin Industrial Academy, where he soon became leader of the academy's Communist Party organization. ... He continued to move up the party ranks under the patronage of Lazar Kaganovich, who held the position of first secretary in the Moscow City Party Committee. ... A firm supporter of Stalin during his early career, Khrushchev became a secretary of the Central Committee of the Co...
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