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Who became the Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death and implemented a period known as the "Thaw" in the 1950s and early 1960s?

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Correct Incorrect Nikita Khrushchev----Unlike Stalin, Khrushchev encouraged de-Stalinization by releasing prisoners from the Gulags, opening up the media, and reducing censorship in the Soviet Union.

Who became the Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death and implemented a period known as the "Thaw" in the 1950s and early 1960s?

  • Leonid Brezhnev
  • Yuri Andropov
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Nikita Khrushchev
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