THE DANGER OF PLAYING HOST TO KHRUSHCHEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200330122-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 122
• Publication Date: September 2, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

N t kIT KOR USHCHEv first appears -in history as a
t onimunist, official in the Ukraine in the early
1 `:1:;u's helping to direct the program of planned star-
v 7t t ion which resulted in the `death of five, million
I `ki Lt iti,r,s.
!it 19:1S Khrushchev was 'appointed Communist
it i the l' kr?aine. Ile was appointed to that posi-
rrwani iur his previous ruthlessness. his
;,, direct the great Ukrainian purge of that
~.:1 Au! horities on Ukrainian history estimate that
1106 aril,, women artd? children were murdered
Iii?rushchev's over-all direction in that single
riull,~ a fully documented account of the purge
,, the districts of the Ukraine will give a
i:rlihic Isictur'e..
Three months after Khrushchev rose to power
in the Ukraine, twelve thousand people were mur-
dered in the small city of -Vinnitsa; each of the
ictinms was shot in the back of the neck-in some
cases two or. three times. They were thrown Into
mass graves.. Their fate was unknown to their
families and townspeople until the graves were
accidentally discovered several years later.
The documentation on Vinnitsa is complete with
hundreds of photographs, reliable details of eyewit-
accounts. and authoritative medical records.
This is vhat,Khrushchev did in one city. The atroc-
it irks ;c-1';"innitsa . were repeated throughout the
le ccntit>uecl to rise in Communist ranks through
Ills participation in other purges in the Ukraine
i il llt .up to the German conquest of that area in
1'111.
l olluwviug the. war, he was sent back by Stalin to
i;:,,, ' the crushing of the resistance of the Ukrainian
t1 Mahe rr'irnposition of Communist rule.
Iia;ee lived in an era of totalitarian regimes,
a hic,hhave Perpetrated crimes on so gigantic
?oe Ih tt people van not comprehend them, crimes
oft, i repeated that olir sensibilities become fa-
t.ud girl our reaction dulled. 1114tny who would
1,Y no individual murder in their borne
., t,t the urgr:rrizeil xnr,ili latiitii
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r 11.1'- ;tr'e II scI I nI 11%? 111 177t<
e;tr~ ,gaily cease to respond altogether.
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