Complex sentence: Podgorny briefly fell out of Khruschev's favor in 1961 when he blamed bad corn yields in the Ukrainian SSR on "bad weather", Khrushchev on the other hand, claimed that the crops were "stolen" and "pilfered".
Split into simpler sentences: Podgorny briefly fell out of Khruschev's favor in 1961 when he blamed bad corn yields in the Ukrainian SSR on "bad weather". Khrushchev, on the other hand, claimed that the crops were "stolen" and "pilfered".