With the death of Stalin, the security situation of the USSR deteriorated significantly. What was needed was a leader with a high level of intelligence, with extensive knowledge, with a state mindset.
Stalin, during his leadership, brought the state to the level of a superpower, with which all world governments reckoned. Therefore, his successor got an economically independent, cohesive country.
But power in the USSR passed into the hands of a man who absolutely did not know how to govern the country and who hated Russia. Strong, and rebuilt after the war, the country went to N. S. Khrushchev. He won the struggle for power against a rather strong opponent - Lavrenty Beria. Why, such a strong, intelligent, strong-willed Beria lost to the illiterate, hot-tempered and close-minded N. Khrushchev?
The practical unreality of such a situation, which nevertheless happened, gives the right to put forward a version that some third force intervened in the matter. In addition, until now no one has given a clear explanation of how generally N. Khrushchev skyrocketed the career ladder under Stalin. His closest associates, like Stalin, did not have respect for him, considering him a narrow-minded person, a sycophant and an official completely incapable of learning.
It is quite possible that on the day of the death of the leader of the peoples, this third force came out of the deep underground to bring N. Khrushchev to power. It is not so difficult to understand who benefited from this - the opponents of the USSR. It was vitally important for them that the country be ruled by a narrow-minded person. The only thing left is to help put the right person in the office.
Beria and Malenkov had the most chances to become leaders of the country, but not N. Khrushchev. But a number of unexpected and strange events that took place in 1953 undoubtedly influenced the outcome of the struggle for power and brought an outsider to power - N. Khrushchev.
First event: an amnesty for prisoners was announced. More than a million criminals have flooded the cities and villages of the country. It can be assumed that the purpose of this action was to intimidate the people with rampant crime. But military patrols immediately appeared, drove the criminals into their holes and normalized (albeit only outwardly) the situation in the country. Society received a clear hint that the state machine without a leader had malfunctioned in the security system.
Second event: the return of G. K. Zhukov for a high position in the Ministry of Defense. Under Stalin, the marshal fell into disgrace: he was accused of exporting valuables from Germany for the purpose of personal enrichment and was removed away from the upper echelons of power. G. Zhukov was "obliged" to someone for his return "to the Olympus" and must work off the debt. And no one doubted that the army would follow him. It is not for nothing that the people named him the "Marshal of Victory". Therefore, to have such a security official in your allies is a great success in the division of power.
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Third event: the murder of Lavrenty Beria. Precisely murder, since there is too little information about the arrest, trial and execution of this person. There is evidence that a friend of N. Khrushchev, General K. Moskalenko, was directly involved in the murder of Beria. Why did Beria fail to take measures to protect himself in time? Most likely, the previously omnipotent Beria did not expect betrayal from his comrades-in-arms, whom he always kept in fear, having dirt on everyone.
The force that brought N. Khrushchev to power, in gratitude for the help, got the way of influencing all decisions of N. Khrushchev.
It is possible that the decision to include Crimea in Ukraine was also dictated to him by the "curators". Crimea has always seduced the Turks, French, British, etc. Immediately after the Great Patriotic War, the goal of the West was the collapse of the USSR, as a result of which Ukraine would become independent, and it would be much easier to take away the tasty peninsula from Ukraine than from Russia.
Then N. Khrushchev decided to significantly weaken control over foreign media outlets operating in the Soviet Union. And a huge stream of lies about the life of Soviet people poured onto the heads of foreigners (under Stalin, journalists who incite hatred for everything Soviet were immediately deprived of their accreditation). Khrushchev's decision regarding foreign media caused enormous damage to the international reputation of the USSR and created fertile ground for the flourishing of Russophobia.
In 1955, the criminals who fought on the fronts against the Soviet army were released. And although this was accepted with enthusiasm in the west, Soviet citizens considered it an insult to those killed and injured by their actions.
The Soviet people remember well that the German invasion took place through the countries of Eastern Europe with the full support of the governments of these countries, which were hostile to the USSR. Therefore, Stalin did everything to make these countries friendly after the war and become a kind of barrier, territorially pushing enemies away from the Soviet borders.
During the reign of N. Khrushchev, the West and the United States decided that it was time to bring discord into the socialist bloc. In 1953 they provoked an uprising in Czechoslovakia. Then detachments of fascist thugs were brought into East Berlin, where the militants were quickly neutralized.
By order of N. Khrushchev, the employees of the criminal investigation department and the state security, who conscientiously fulfill their duty to ensure the security of the peoples of the USSR, were repressed. Employees of all power ministries were made redundant, and the best were disposed of. We can say that all the dreams of the enemies of the Soviet Union came true overnight.
After Stalin's death, the Japanese immediately began to actively promote the issue of returning the "northern territories" to them. And if N. Khrushchev did not dare to accept such a decision, he was able to surrender the Soviet bases near China and on the Baltic Sea.
The important strategic position of the Porkkalla-Udd Peninsula, located near Helsinki, attracted the Soviet military command. The Soviet Union signed an agreement with Finland in 1944 for the lease of this site until 1994 for the location of a naval base. N. Khrushchev abandoned the treaty, returning the territory of Finland, which automatically led to the elimination of the Soviet base, which was the USSR's outpost on the Baltic Sea.
The same fate, by order of N. Khrushchev, befell the military bases located in Port Arthur and Dalny. In 1945, the USSR and China also signed an agreement for a long-term lease of these territories. The Soviet presence at these outposts was a strategic task ensuring the security of the country's eastern borders. But these military facilities were also withdrawn, and the territories were returned to the Chinese, like the Sino-Eastern Railway.
These decisions of N. Khrushchev marked the beginning of squeezing the USSR out of the most important world regions. "Gifts" to the West so generously distributed by N. Khrushchev significantly worsened the country's strategic position and led to geopolitical defeats of the Soviet Union.
More than 60 years have passed since the death of the leader of the peoples, but the West is still struggling even with the memory of the USSR and Stalin. They are even afraid to imagine that someday the power, glory and influence of Russia in the world will be restored.