How it was 24.04.2000 (2000)

"Son of NS Khrushchev - a traitor or a hero?

The case of 1943 ".

Over the past few years, our press has published many publications about Nikita Khrushchev's eldest son, Leonid.

Most of them put it in a negative light.

About what only do not write!

Accused of that in his youth he allegedly participated in robbery robberies, involved in the murder of a man, during the war he went over to the side of the enemy and shot the Red Army men.

Others argue that in his youth Leonid worked as a mechanic at the plant, then entered the air school, during the war was an excellent fighter pilot, heroically fought the Nazis and died while performing a combat mission.

To understand who was actually Leonid Khrushchev and who needed to demonize the memory of the son of the former General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, the program invited In the studio the sister of Leonid Radu Adjubey, son of Yuri, military comrade Stepan Mikoyan, military historian Andrei Sukhomlinov and Soviet pilot-ace Peter Bazanov.

With the help of memories and archival documents, the details of the last battle of Leonid are restored.

The program includes fragments of interviews with Sergo Beria and Lyubov Sizykh, the widow of Leonid Khrushchev.

There are footage of the chronicles of the war years (air battles, concentration camps) and excerpt of the XX Congress of the CPSU, where NS Khrushchev made a report on Stalin's cult of personality and its consequences.