This leader of the USSR had a direct phone line to President Kennedy after the world was brought close to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis:

Answer Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev was the Premier of the USSR from 1958-1964. His policy of de-Stalinization put in place the groundwork to future relations with the West.

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