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Date	c. 1945 - c. 1953
Location	Soviet Union

Topics

Nikita Khrushchev Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee murder assassination

Key People

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

premier of Soviet Union

Andrey Aleksandrovich Zhdanov

Soviet official