I didn’t realize that he was from the Ukraine. He should have been hung for his role in the Ukrainian famine. When he was Premier of the USSR the press played him up as a grand-fatherly type. In real life he was a stone cold killer.
Robert Conquest has written about this era of history. People in the Ukraine died while looking at tons of wheat behind fences protected by armed guards. Evil incarnate.
Sorry, I had been wrong about Khrushchev’s heritage.
Khrushchev was not Ukrainian by origin, but spent a large time of his youth in the Donezk region of Ukraine, where his family had moved when he was a boy.
Last names with -ev at the end are usually Russian, whereas names with -nko at the end are typically Ukrainian.
But you are right: the farmers sometimes had to watch as their grain was being transported away, leaving nothing for them to eat.
Just dreadful.