The difference between a standing order and a direct debit. Essentially, a standing order is an instruction to your bank, whereas a direct debit gives permission to a company to take money from you. You are the only person who can change the date or payment amount on your standing order.
Born on April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Russia, Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. In a 1956 secret speech, he discussed Stalin's crimes for the first time, starting a process called de-Stalinization..
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the USSR. 1  He withdrew from Afghanistan. 2  He realised that the USSR could not afford the arms race, and opened the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) with the USA. 3  He began to reform the Soviet system by allowing perestroika (competition in business) and glasnost (freedom).