On this day, 72 years ago, on September 3, 1953 (July 25, 1953 in the lunar calendar), Khrushchev was appointed as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On the right is former Soviet leader Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, born in Kursk on April 17, 1894 and joined the Communist Party in 1918. In 1929, he entered the Moscow Institute of Technology to study. After graduation, he served as Secretary of the Moscow District Party Committee and Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. In 1938, he served as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Ukraine, and the following year he became a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the United Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik). During the Patriotic War, he served as a military commissar of the Stalingrad Front Army and the First Front Army of Ukraine. In 1949, he served as Secretary of the Central Committee and First Secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee. After Stalin's death, he masterminded the elimination of the Beria Group. On September 3, 1953, he was elected as the first secretary of the Party Central Committee. In 1958, he served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. In 1956, he presided over the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, fundamentally negated Stalin and organized the review and rehabilitation of certain past cases. In 1961, at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he advocated "a country for all people" and "a party for all people" and proposed the goal of basically establishing communism by 1980. In terms of economy, he implemented the principle of material stimulus, increased the purchase price of agricultural products, abolished the compulsory delivery and sales system, reorganized machine and tractor stations, and reclaimed wasteland. In terms of foreign relations, Khrushchev proposed the principle of peaceful coexistence and peaceful competition between the two social and economic systems. On October 14, 1964, the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union dismissed Khrushchev from his post as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union "in view of his subjective and voluntaristic mistakes." The next day, he was dismissed as chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. He died of illness in Moscow on September 11, 1971.