1766066 Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev in New York for the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1960 (b/w photo); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016) Cuban politician and revolutionary, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba from 1959-76, President 1976-2008. He resigned from the Central Committe of the Communist Party of Cuba in 2011. Here with his ally Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1894-1971) leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Photo by Herman Hiller ); out of copyright.