NS Khrushchev is probably one of the most controversial personalities in the galaxy of former leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet country. It is no coincidence that the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, persecuted by him in his time, made a tombstone to this exposer of the personality cult of I. V. Stalin on a combination of white marble and black granite.
Khrushchev - the head of a totalitarian state
The Soviet leaders in their activities were distinguished by the fact that, being not versed in economics, they solved all economic issues from the standpoint of ideology. Hence the crazy idea that it is possible for a society, communism, where there will be no monetary incentives for labor. People will show labor enthusiasm purely out of communist consciousness, and everything that a person needs, he will receive "for nothing." Khrushchev announced the arrival of such a "paradise" in the USSR in 1980. Did you believe? Probably. But not as an economist - as a child in a fairy tale, as a petty bourgeois in omens, as an epic hero in his immeasurable strength.
Voluntarism, that is, the calculation and stake only on volitional program decisions without taking into account objective factors, is inherent in all communist leaders. This was especially evident in the policy and management style of N. S. Khrushchev.
Khrushchev and Crimea
The "holy" belief in the correctness of the chosen path, in the fact that nothing can change - the people will not allow, will not allow the world proletariat - allowed the Soviet leaders to treat the state lands as their fiefdoms. Only, unlike the Russian princes, they did not add land, but squandered in an attempt to gain cheap authority. At the dawn of the USSR, V. I. Lenin released Finland. He easily pushed the borders of Ukraine into the depths of Russia. The most negative attitude of the people to the activities of N. S. Khrushchev is associated with his historically fatal act of transferring the Russian Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. Several versions of the reasons for this truly "royal gift" are being considered. One of them is preparation for a party congress, at which Khrushchev will debunk the personality cult of I. V. Stalin.
Former comrades-in-arms noted the role of Khrushchev in the Stalinist entourage as a silent compromiser and even a custom-made jester. Perhaps the old, deeply rooted personal grievances were the catalyst for the criticism of Stalin.
The convention will take place in 1956. In the meantime, Khrushchev, apparently, justifying himself before the Ukrainian communists for the repressions in Stalin's times, which he carried out in Ukraine with initiative and imagination, gives them Crimea. He paid off, naively believing that the USSR would be forever, and that he made a cunning move with his knight.
Khrushchev and the intelligentsia
At the beginning of his career, the name of NS Khrushchev was associated with such a concept as "thaw". Thanks to him, the works of AI Solzhenitsin, "Terkin in the Next World" by AT Tvardovsky were published, and previously unimaginable trends in the visual arts arose. And, despite the wild attacks against the creative intelligentsia in the last years of his reign, Khrushchev left a grateful memory of himself among the "sixties". He still gave them a breath of freedom, at least for a short time, but to feel like free artists.
