Each of the members of the Stalinist Politburo was an outstanding person who went through a difficult path during the period of revolutionary activity of the Bolshevik Party, then numerous purges, by hook or by crook strengthened at the top of the power of the largest country in the world. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is no exception.
Born into a poor peasant family, he becomes a commissar in his early twenties. When he was just over forty, he headed the Regional Committee of the capital, actively involved in economic life. Then he leads the Communist Party of Ukraine, organizes activities for the Sovietization of the annexed western regions, in general, always in the very center of events.
War… A time when millions died without a trace. The time when there were rapid leaps in the careers of some state and party leaders. And now the Victory Parade, the podium of the mausoleum, on it are members of the Politburo, and among them is Khrushchev Nikita Sergeevich, Lieutenant General.
So far, the newcomer, if he differs from other "celestials" from large portraits, is only because other Kremlin inhabitants refer to himas, in army language, to "salabon". They laugh at him, they put a tomato on a chair for him, they make fun of him about his plump figure. All of them have their hands up to their elbows in blood, behind collectivization, industrialization, mass "planting" and executions, hunger, and the leadership in Stalin's times could not even hope to avoid participation in these crimes, even not so high. So, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is no exception again.
After the death of the "great helmsman" in 1953, no one perceives this lover of delicious food as a possible heir to the Soviet empire. And then he deals an unexpected and crushing blow to his main competitor - the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. It can be said that Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev carried out a coup d'état, accusing L. P. Beria in espionage in favor of Great Britain, and at the same time in all mortal sins, including hundreds of rapes, and repressions, in which he himself took no less part.
Then strange times began. For the first three years, everything went on as before, and then thunder struck: at the 20th Congress, the famous report suddenly sounded. It turned out that Stalin got a little excited about something. No, it's not about socialism as such, it's just that some Leninist principles were violated. Which? A collective leadership, for example.
Being an ignorant man, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was looking for the simplest way out of the most difficult situations. The development of virgin lands, in itself, is a very useful and necessary thing,produced by non-scientific methods. Chemicalization of everything from a means of increasing efficiency turned into an end in itself. Corn was to be sown wherever possible (and where not).
However, many of his aspirations were really good. Albeit small-sized, but millions of citizens of the USSR found their apartments. Collective farmers finally received passports, and along with them - the status of equal citizens and the opportunity, albeit problematic, to leave the disgusting and impoverished village.
Such was the Khrushchev thaw. Briefly describe it, because, on the one hand, the restoration of legality was declared, millions of prisoners returned home from the camps, and on the other hand, any dissent was mercilessly suppressed both in the country and throughout the socialist camp.
The result of such inconsistency was a complete loss of popularity and resignation. The Stalinists could not forgive the debunking of their idol, the intelligentsia - harassment, the military - layoffs, and the rest of the people - illiteracy and bungling.
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev died in 1971. He was a personal pensioner.
