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A New Olympic Challenge
2016
Overview
Shortly after Dwight D. Eisenhower took office, Joseph Stalin suffered a fatal stroke. The Soviet dictator died on 5 March 1953. A small cadre of officials assumed leadership in the Kremlin, until Nikita Khrushchev eventually manipulated his way into power. Almost immediately, Stalin’s successors took steps to reconfigure Soviet foreign policy. They brought an end to the Korean War and mended diplomatic ties with Yugoslavia, Israel, Turkey, and Greece. They also displayed a willingness to negotiate with the United States. “There are no contested issues in U.S.–Soviet relations,” announced Georgi Malenkov, the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers,
