N. S. Khrushchev is probably one of the most controversial personalities in the galaxy of former leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet country. It was no accident that the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, driven by him at one time, made a tombstone to this exposer of the personality cult I.V. Stalin on a combination of white marble and black granite.
Khrushchev - head of a totalitarian state
The Soviet leaders in their activities were distinguished by the fact that, being not knowledgeable in the economy, they resolved all economic issues from the standpoint of ideology. Hence, such a crazy idea that society, communism is possible, where there will be no monetary incentive for labor. People will show labor enthusiasm purely out of communist consciousness, and all that a person needs, he will receive "for no reason." 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 philistine in signs, as an epic hero in his unmeasured powers.
Voluntarism, that is, calculating and relying only on strong-willed programmatic decisions without taking into account objective factors, is inherent in all communist figures. This was especially evident in the politics and management style of N.S. Khrushchev.
Khrushchev and Crimea
The "holy" faith in the correctness of the chosen path, in the fact that nothing can already change - the people will not allow, the world proletariat will not allow - allowed the Soviet leaders to treat state lands as their patrimony. 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 deep into Russia. The most negative attitude of the people to the activity of N. S Khrushchev is connected 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 considered. One of them is preparation for the party congress, at which Khrushchev will debunk the personality cult of I.V. Stalin.
Former associates noted the role of Khrushchev in the Stalinist environment as a silent compromiser and even a custom jester. Perhaps the former, deeply entrenched personal insults were the catalyst for criticism of Stalin.
The congress will take place in 1956. In the meantime, Khrushchev, apparently justifying himself before the Ukrainian Communists for the repressions in the Stalin era that he carried out in Ukraine initiatively and with imagination, gives them Crimea. He paid off, naively believing that the USSR would be forever, and that he made a tricky move with his horse.
