Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich.

Khrushchev, Nikita, born on 17-04-1894, into a family of peasants in the village of Kalinovka, Kursk region, Russian Empire. Nikita was raised among agricultural and mining workers and he studied for only two years at grammar school as a child. After the Russian Revolution   under Vladimir Lenin   On 25-05-1922, Lenin suffered a stroke that almost paralyzed the right side of his body. A later stroke deprived Lenin of his power of speech. Finally he died on 21-01-1924 in Gorki, a village 35 km south of Moscow. Although his widow Krupskaya disagreed, his embalmed body was placed on permanent display in a mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square, where he still lies. Every two weeks his corpse is specially treated and regularly needs to be properly refurbished.

Nikita Khrushchev joined the Red Army, then joined the Communist party in 1918 and made a career as a politician. He was active in the Russian revolution and Civil War, when the intellectual elite was brutally killed as well as the family of Nickolas

and Alexandra. The Civil War continued for decades in a form of the “Great Terror” and repressions under Joseph Stalin

  during the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s. Under orders from Moscow, Khrushchev participated in massive confiscations of food, crops, forage grains, and supplies, that left millions of peasants starving to death in famines of 1920s-30s. Some areas of Ukraine and Russia suffered so much that people later perceived WWII as liberation from the Soviet regime. In 1931 Khrushchev was promoted to Moscow, where he briefly studied at the Soviet Industrial Academy. In 1934 he became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and in 1935, the 1^st Secretary of the Moscow City Committee. In 1938 Khrushchev was appointed the 1st Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party

and promoted to Politburo. During WWII Khrushchev was coordinating the defence of Ukraine, while his family was evacuated to Kuibyshev. In 1942-42 he was a political commissar during the battle of Stalingrad. There, frozen Nazi Armies were stopped and lost the battle to the Russian soldiers, who defended their land. Khrushchev was decorated and promoted in the Communist party. He was later a political commissar of the 1^st Ukrainian Front, where his deputy was Leonid Brezhnev, he died age 75, on 10-11-1982. Khrushchev patronized Brezhnev, whom he knew since 1931. After the death of Joseph Stalin on 05-03-1953, and following the elimination of Stalin’s inner circle, Khrushchev became the leader of the Communist Party on 07-09-1953. He completed the takeover after the execution of his main rival Lavrenti Beria

  , Beria was executed in December 1953 age 54, with the help of the powerful Marshal Georgi Zhukov

. Then Khrushchev promoted Brezhnev in hopes to have a steady ally in the coming power-struggles against the Stalinist conservatives. In his historic speech on 23-02-1956, Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin for his brutal purges and massive executions of people. Then Khrushchev exiled the powerful Marshal Georgi Zhukov and became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union. Brezhnev dismissed Khrushchev on 14-10-1964, after Khrushchev’s vacation at the Communist Party owned Black Sea resort. He was stripped of all privileges and lived under house arrest outside Moscow.

Khrushchev’s second wife (though they were never officially married) was Ukrainian-born Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, whom he met in 1922. His first wife  Euphrasinia, Yefrosinia,  with whom he had two children, died of typhus. He later remarried Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk and had three more children,  daughter Rada was born in 1929, son Sergei in 1935 and daughter Elena in 1937.

Death and burial ground of Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich.

    After his death on 11-09-1971, age 77 of heart failure, Khrushchev was not buried officially like other Politburo members near the Kremlin. Instead, he was buried without an official ceremony at the Novodevichy Cemetery. Close by the graves of Ilya Ehrenburg, Ukrainian writer and war-inciter, he came with the shout ”Kill the Germans”, Air Marshal, Ivan Mykytovych Kozhedub, Defender of Moscow, Lev Dovator, Field marschall and commander of the 3^rd Army, Pavel Rybalko,  Agreement with the Germans in 1939, Viacheslav Molotov and Commanding General of the 1^st Belorussian’s 3^rd Shock Army, Vasily Kuznetsov, they were the first to put their banner on the Reichstag.

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