Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was very proud of his peasant origin and the fact that from an early age he worked in a mine and at a factory. However, rumors circulated among the top leadership of the USSR that Khrushchev actually came from an exploiter class and had Polish roots.
In 1938-1939, the head of the NKVD, Beria, carried out a cleanup of the party and security apparatus from people who were supported by the previously repressed Yezhov. The almighty People's Commissar also hit the top leadership of the Ukrainian Republic, where Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was the first party secretary. The NKVD paid special attention to the biographies of party leaders and their true origins.
As it turned out, the head of the regional committee of the Dnepropetrovsk region, and Khrushchev's best friend Zadionchenko was not born into the family of a poor Ukrainian farm laborer. His father was a Jew named Zayonchik, who was a wealthy craftsman and activist of the Jewish Socialist Party. The second friend of Nikita Sergeevich, the head of the NKVD of Ukraine Uspensky, pretended to be the son of a forester, but in fact the father of the Chekist was the famous Black Hundreds and merchant Alexander Uspensky.
To develop Khrushchev, the Chekists went to his homeland in the village of Kalinovka, Kursk region. It turned out that the locals did not call their fellow countryman the son of a poor peasant, but the illegitimate child of the Polish landowner Alexander Gaswitsky. Nikita Sergeevich's mother worked as a housekeeper for him, and the Pole himself did not refuse his child. In 1914 Gasvitsky bought his son off from the army and sent Khrushchev with a letter of recommendation to Yuzovka (Donetsk) to his old friend, the German industrialist Kirsch.
Khrushchev claimed that he worked as a miner, but the famous note from Molotov with the words that they never managed to find the mine in which he worked. In fact, the future leader of the USSR worked for Kirsch as an estate manager and had nothing to do with the working class.
Former KGB worker Zinkovich claimed that Stalin knew about the true origins of Khrushchev, who played himself a "village fool" all his life. Yezhov and Malenkov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, also knew about the Polish origin of Nikita Sergeevich.
Alexander Brazhnik
