How it was 25.04.2000 (2000)

The theme of the program "Khrushchev's Son: Traitor or Hero".

The case of 1943. Over the past few years, several publications have appeared in our press about Nikita Khrushchev's eldest son, Leonid.

Most of them present him in a negative light.

What they don't write about: in his youth, he participated in robberies, was involved in the murder of a person, during the war he went over to the enemy's side and took part in the execution of Red Army soldiers.

Others claim: in his youth, he worked as a mechanic at a factory, then entered a flying school, during the war he was a good fighter pilot, heroically fought the fascists and died while performing a combat mission.

In order to understand who Leonid Khrushchev really was and who needed to "denigrate" the son of the former General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Leonid's sister Adzhubei Rada, his comrade-in-arms, Hero of the Soviet Union, honored fighter pilot Stepan Mikoyan and historian Andrey Sukhomlinov, Sergo Beria, son of Lavrenty Beria, Lyubov Sizykh - the widow of Leonid Khrushchev were invited to the studio of the program "How It Was".

Chronicle: Nikita Khrushchev on the tribune of the congress, prisoners in a freight car look through the bars, a column of prisoners, people watch Nikita Khrushchev's speech on TV, workers saw pine trees in a logging site, a cut pine tree falls, I.V. Stalin, V.M. Molotov, L.P. Beria on the tribune, a sports parade on Red Square, I.V. Stalin. and Khrushchev N.S., congress delegates applaud, Stalin I.V. and Beria L.P., pilots in airplane cockpits, military airplanes take off from the airfield, air battle, explosion of a flying airplane, Soviet prisoners of war in a German camp, German camp sign "

HALT-STOJ!"

on a pole with barbed wire, people behind the barbed wire of a concentration camp, photographs of Khrushchev Leonid.