#Communist
5 entries tagged Communist.
People (4)
- Erich Honecker Erich Honecker (1912-1994) ruled East Germany from 1971 to 1989, having supervised the Berlin Wall's 1961 construction as a senior SED official, leading the GDR through the Stasi's pervasive surveillance until he was removed amid the 1989 collapse and fled to Chile, where he died.
- Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death, building the totalitarian intelligence apparatus that shaped Soviet and Eastern bloc services for decades and establishing the Eastern European satellite system that triggered the Cold War.
- Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, delivering the 1956 Secret Speech denouncing Stalin, authorizing the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961, navigating the Cuban Missile Crisis, and being removed in a 1964 Politburo coup.
- Walter Ulbricht Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973) was East Germany's dominant political figure from its 1949 founding until 1971, overseeing the Berlin Wall's 1961 construction to halt mass emigration, enforcing Stalinist party rule against de-Stalinization pressure, and being removed by Erich Honecker with Soviet backing.
Places (1)
- North Korea North Korea (DPRK), established in 1948 in the Soviet occupation zone of the Korean peninsula, launched the Korean War in 1950, has been ruled by the Kim dynasty since founding, and its capture of MI6 officer George Blake during the war enabled his KGB recruitment.