AMERICAN OPINION OF KHRUSHCHEV (09/17/60)

AMERICAN OPINION OF KHRUSHCHEV

Who is Nikita S. Khrushchev, the man who wants to sit down and talk peace with the free world, the man who demands apologies from the West for affronts to his sensitivities? Let the record of his deeds tell who he is.

When Khrushchev was in the United States last fall Americans saw flashes of his monstrous temper, his grotesque figures of speech, his preoccupation with death, his appetite for violence. Then, at the Paris summit meeting, his veil of pretence for peace and understanding was ripped off, and he stood revealed full face.

The real Khrushchev was known long before. The file of the House Committee on Un-American Activities are crammed full of the testimony of those who were eye-witnesses to his rise to power in Russia. They began their account with the year 1930 when Khrushchev was trying to prove to Stalin his fitness to become a member of the Central Committee. His proving-grounds was Ukraine, where:

1. He bossed a genocide that took an estimated six to seven million lives.
2. He personally engineered the systematic starvation of millions of Ukrainians.
3. He participated in the slaughter of 80 percent of Ukraine's intellectuals, directed the secret police murder of 400,000 political foes.
4. He organized man-made famines in 1933.
5. He uprooted the Catholic Church in Ukraine, erased 4,400 churches and closed 127 monasteries. Today the church does not exist in Ukraine.

The committee's witnesses testified that Stalin rewarded Khrushchev with important posts for his skill in eliminating enemies of the state. By 1944, according to the transcript, Khrushchev was dispatched to Ukraine again to deal with the resistance movement. Three survivors report that at his orders the secret police:

"Cut into the skin and tore the skin off living bodies."

"They also nailed people on the crosses. They cut out eyes, broke bones in legs and arms and extracted nails."

One witness before the committee said mass graves opened after a Khrushchev-directed purge revealed 9,499 maimed and mutilated bodies.

As premier of all Russians, Khrushchev was confronted in 1956 with a Hungarian freedom uprising, the first to contest his authority. His reaction was similar to his performance in Ukraine:

1. 30,000 Hungarians were killed during and after the revolt.
2. He ordered the deportation of 12,000 to the Soviet Union.
3. He imprisoned hundreds of thousands in Hungary.
4. He confined 15,000 to slave labor camps.

What has he in mind for the United States? A speech he made in Warsaw in 1955 gives some insight:

"We must realize that we cannot co-exist eternally, for a long time. One of us must go to his grave. They (The Americans and the West) do not want to go to their grave, either. What can be done? We must push them to their grave."

This is Nikita S. Khrushchev by word and deed.

(Courtesy: The San Diego Union, June 20, 1960)

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