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Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (Russian: Сергей Никитич Хрущёв; 2 July 1935 – 18 June 2020) was a Soviet-born American engineer and the second son of the Cold War-era Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with his wife Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva.
In 1935 she gave birth to their son Sergei and in 1937 to their daughter Elena, who died aged 35 due to poor health. [1] [2] In 1938 Khrushchev was appointed as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and his family returned to Kyiv, but only three years later they were evacuated to Samara due to the German invasion of the Soviet ...
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His parents, Sergei Khrushchev and Kseniya Khrushcheva, were poor Russian peasants, [5] and had a daughter two years Nikita's junior, Irina. [2] Sergei Khrushchev was employed in a number of positions in the Donbas area of far eastern Ukraine, working as a railwayman, as a miner, and laboring in a brick factory.
Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German specialists (scientists, engineers and technicians who worked in several areas) from companies and institutions relevant to military and economic policy in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and Berlin, as well as around 4,000 more family members, totalling more than 6,000 people, were taken from ...
By April 1942, when the operation finished, at least 6,000 and as many as 20,000 people had been killed [37] [38] – the first act of systematic killing in the camp system. [39] Beginning in August 1941, selected Soviet prisoners of war were killed within the concentration camps, usually within a few days of their arrival.
The massacres were later documented by the occupying German authorities and were used in anti-Soviet and anti-Jewish propaganda. [10] [11] After the war and in recent years, the authorities of Germany, Poland, Belarus, and Israel identified no fewer than 25 prisons whose prisoners were killed and a much larger number of mass execution sites. [8]
Werner is the only American woman who was held in the Gulag to tell about it. Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag ( ISBN 0-394-49497-0 ), by a member of the US Embassy, and I Was a Slave in Russia ( ISBN 0-8159-5800-5 ), an American factory owner's son, were two more American citizens interned who wrote of their ordeal.