European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday october 16, 1964 Khrushchev Rose from peasant beginnings by United press International Nikita s. Chrusc hcs Pov erty to Power Story Heurun april 17. 1894, when he was born into a peasant family Liv ing in the Village of Kalinov Ca. Near kursk in the Ukraine about 900 Miles from Moscow. Afler a Brief period As Achild Shepherd minding the family s few Domestic animals Nikita was apprenticed As a Mechanic in an engineering factory and then followed his father and other villagers Down into the mines at the nearby Donnas formal education was largely neglected but the Early exposure to both peasant and Industrial life influenced his whole future career. In his Long climb to Power in Russia Khrushchev always played heavily on his Humble origins and knew How to Appeal and talk to workers from nil Sec tors of the Economy As their Little squat five feel five inches tall with rough peasant Tea Lorn be always retained the physical toughness of the Conn Irmaa combined with the shrewd practicality of the fac tory worker. In the Munei where reworked As a Mechanic Khrushchev was introduced to Anil Czar it revolutionary talk Prev Alent among the workers. Asa youth however he seems to have steered Clear of was a soccer player for a workers team. Apart from Youthful whipping for fishing on a private estate he did no get into trouble with the Law. In 1118, when he was 23, rejoined the bolshevik party and went off to the Southern front to fight in the civil War As an enlisted All qualities As a Leader tint emerged. He could have remained in the army but ebon la return la Ibe Kaaba coalfields were be was made an assistant manager urged on by he first wife he apparently was wed in 1 11although soviet biographies Gav neither the Date nor his wife s name Khrushchev quit the mines to go to one of the adult education schools which the now victorious had started. There at the workers faculty of the Doneit Industrial Institute. Khrushchev not Only did Well As a Pupil but also became Active in communist party work. After leaving the started in at the Rau Roou level of the part organization As Secretary Gen eral of a Small District com Mittee. Significantly in View of his background he became party expert on mining and agriculture of which he could claim first hand experience. Many years later after head achieved Fame a British commentator was to say of him there it nothing in his career to suggest the fanatic. There i everything to suggest the prac tical Man guided by at the beginning it was handwork that paid off. Khrushchev worked his Way up through various party posts in the Ukraine Region finally be coming head of the party or Gani Patlon in you Sovka District and then in the City of Kiev. By this Lime the first great communist Leader Lenin had died 14 and a bitter fight for surr Eklon had broken out Between his in Henchman. San Len and Trotsky. Khrushchev hacked Stalin Anil in the Ukraine helped Weed Trotsky Iii Oul of influx Ellal position. The touch of inspired opportunism the Lucky break he knew How to seize came when one of the big bolshevik lenders Lazar Kuk Unovich visited Khrushchev s urea. A go notch liked Nikita Sorgeler Volch a work against the Trot sky faction and invited Khrushchev to Moscow. The country boy was begin Ning to make Good. In 1929 he was sent to the Moscow Indus trial Academy a College which trained specialists in economics. Here his Basic Educa Tion was broadened to equip him for senior party posts. During the next 10 years inthe brutally Tough 1930s when Stalin was consolidating his Power through purges and reorganizations Khrushchev made his big surge Forward. He was elected to increasingly important posts and by 1934 was a member of the communist parly s Central com Mittee. Flourishing his b r o a knowledge of the communist party system Khanu Schev Coa Lla aed to impress Bis seniors and to slay out of trouble wit them. On the social level be mixed easily. Although do Anold guard bolshevik be exaggerated his working Elan Back ground wore rough Sells and spoke the language of the peo ple. In 1935 he became first Secretary to the Moscow commit tee of the party succeeding his Friend Kaganovich. For his part in helping to direct the build ing of the Moscow subway he was awarded the party s to medal the order of Lenin. In 1938 Khrushchev a trusted stalinist was sent Back to his native province As first Secretary of the Central commit tee of the communist party of the Ukraine. It was an appointment Khrushchev was never to be allowed to forget. He personally led Stalin s bloody purge in the area and was reported Mohave removed about 3.000 party officials Many of the sent to slave labor Camps or executed. He appears to have been ruthless in carrying out Stalin s orders to bolster agricultural production and eliminate ukrainian resistance to regi mentation. Later he Wai to condemn Stalin s methods but in ims the practical and ambitious Khrushchev apparently always followed Stalin s 1939 Khrushchev was pro of djo be a member of the political Bureau of the Centra committee of the communist party of the soviet Union. Hews now reaching into the policy making sphere. When world War ii by Russia with the German in Vasion of im1. Khrushchev was ordered to the Ukraine to organize and coordinate guerrilla defense and Regn Lale Contact Between Chr Force and Ibe red army. After the soviet Retreat fro the area he headed the political department of the red army on the Southern front with the rank of h it count served an military councils at various fronts and too Kan Active part in the defense of , the peasant the min worker the trained economist the Man with the unequalled knowledge of he work inn of the party system now Nelsn had close Contact with the soviet service chiefs. By War s Home this ukrainian Shack. In Seal no disbelieved to have been Khrushchev s residence when he worked to a factory. The Home we owned by his father in Law. Up plot end he was a top member of the party Hierarchy. In the immediate postwar period it was again the Ukraine that occupied Khrushchev s at Tention. He vet sent Back As chairman of the Region s coun cil of ministers to restore it to Normal in the Wake of the Ger Man occupation. German collaborators had Tobe eliminated and agriculture reorganized within the soviet system. The task was complicated by a devastating drought in 1948 that threw the Economy out of gear. The resilient Khrushchev new How to save Bis own prestige and escape blame Oribe reverses. His outside activities helped him. He remained Stalin s Choice As heir took Over the premiership. The Down to Earth Khrushchev mane Vered to get the Pott of first Secretary of the communist parly Central committee. That was the pos from which Stalin had wielded real Power for 3d years. Immediately after Stalin death. Khrushchev s name be Gan to appear first on the Liston secretaries but he was not formally appointed to the ran of first Secretary until sept. 13, 1953. This made him head of the soviet communist party. Together with Georgi Malen Kov and foreign minister Vya Cheslav Molotov the old Stal Inist Khrushchev helped b nist run Khrushchev was a stayer close to the parly Leaden and Russia As one of a triumvirate. His clowning was not Only for t " and at times seemed to drink. He got himself about the late american Ducer Mike Todd called the world i sir William Hay Tbs British ambassador in my Fossa. The time wrote that in ant first contacts with Western at Al class and reporters Kara Sychev even seemed rather stupid rather slow la Gran complicated ideas which Bat to be explained to him by the apparently quicker wilted Hayter said the Westerner came to realize they were wrong. Khrushchev. Direct purges in Ibe satellite countries. In 1949 he was recalled to Moscow As Secretary of the so Viet communist party Centra committee and the Moscow regional committee. He was now in a position Roget friends into key posts and keep enemies Down. He was poised for the next big step the Battle for Power when the now ageing Stalin finally died. Khrushchev began to spread his influence wide within Russia. The Man who had Bee mainly known in the Ukraine made himself a National figure by advocating a Tough new farming policy which involve breaking up scattered Settle ments and bringing the families to live in farm this program was Success. It was typical Khrushchev s toughness that betas Able to ride of the criticisms and inn them to Bis own advantage. His name As the world entered the Umic we i How u household one in Russia though still scarcely known in the Western world. He wooed the Farmers by adopting a More conciliatory approach to promised them Marc say in running their affairs and a big Ger slice of their earnings. Khrushchev the practical opportunist had profited from his Currier Murch 5, 1951. Stalin died and the race for succession be Gan. Georce Milenkov. Younger than Khrushchev and More Ofa bureaucrat and reputedly Malenkos was the , but increasingly Khrushchev made the major speeches and the major pronouncements. He burst into the International word with typical splash. At diplomatic parties he but fooled and talked boastfully foreign Benefit. His own pea. Pie used to the hard state v Fine liked the comedy Reutti he even told Starlei Agala Tatj himself. L there was the one attrib Tad to him about the Mai. Who i a Ujj year jail sentence for n Vonu Nunt on Pagi i col u Iuro can coition col kid Way p. Tit disc torn or news mountaut. O put Lanumn Orr. Mingl. Uno per Tinkum a wuss. Eirew Ulm Mim a
