Asia-Pacific
THE COLD WAR
Khrushchev's Progeny
Almost 30 years after Nikita Khrushchev's death, his legacy still resonates with ironies. A onetime protege of Stalin who later exposed the Soviet dictator's crimes, Khrushchev opposed the U.S. as a staunch cold warrior. Now his son Sergei has become a U. S. citizen-and as a result, Sergei's adult son, Nikita, who lives in Moscow, has found that for some Russians, the cold war is not over.
Young Khrushchev, who heads the file department at the liberal weekly Moskovskiye Novosti, reports that he recently called a former senior Communist Party official, at his father's request. The old Communist was less than receptive, calling Sergei Khrushchev a "degenerate" who "betrayed the homeland and sold out to the Americans." And he suggested that the young Khrushchev, as a "traitor's" progeny, should be prosecuted and possibly even executed-an old Stalinist practice.
