Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich

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.

  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 onc the Reichstag.