Khrushchev’s son: Russia is no match to the power of the US
The son of the former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Khrushchev, said that neither the Soviet Union nor modern Russia can match the power of the US, as reported by the Las Vegas Sun.
A Doctor of Technical Sciences, Sergei Khrushchev delivered a lecture at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas.
As a scientist who has lived in the United States since the 1990s, he briefly outlined the history of relations between the two countries, without neglecting the role of his father in this process.
According to Khrushchev, during the confrontation between the two countries, the US acted like the "world policeman," and the USSR decided "not to show fear or weakness." He admitted that Russia’s strength was not even "close" to that of its Western counterpart, then or now.
The newspaper notes that Moscow built its policy on the basis of this principle. As examples of the implementation of such a course, Khrushchev noted the Soviet Union's refusal to send an American-Russian mission to the Moon or to participate in the Caribbean crisis.
"Indeed, my father was afraid that it would show (to the US) how weak they are," the scientist said.
Khrushchev pointed out that the end of the Cold War showed "differences in culture and values" between the Soviet Union and the United States. When Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev viewed this event as establishing allied and friendly relations between countries, his American counterpart Ronald Reagan saw this as a victory of Washington in the confrontation.
The scientist said that the future prosperity and peace between the two nations is a similar demonstration of decorum and respect.
"We cannot be a policeman for the world and we cannot punish everyone we don't like, we have to learn to appreciate and to bring as many countries as possible on our side," he said.
Earlier, Sergei Khrushchev discussed the reasons why his father transferred the Crimea to Ukraine in 1954.