Best Leader of the Soviet Union

[JohnFKennedy]

     I like how three people voted Khrushchev. Is there any redeeming features about him that I'm forgetting? I associate him with the Berlin Ultimatum & the Cuban Missile Crisis, which were not the USSR's finest hours.

The Cuban Missile Crisis saw the removal of US missiles from Turkey that were a major strategic threat to the Soviet Union. Not a bad trade-off, especially given that some of those missiles could have hit Moscow in about twenty minutes.

[JohnFKennedy]

Stalinist Lysenkoism was hardly better than later agricultural policies.

[JohnFKennedy]

I wonder how such a poll conducted in Russia would go. Probably a dead heat between Stalin and Brezhnev and Gorbachov last.

Look's like it would be Stalin to me.