Brezhnev rose to the pinnacle of power with the support of the Soviet party and government. However, behind all this was a coup d'état against Khrushchev. Khrushchev, completely unbeknownst to him, was ousted from power by Brezhnev and others, while at that time he was vacationing at his dacha on the Black Sea coast.
Years later, people are still curious about the reasons for the Khrushchev coup d'état. Historians and enthusiasts have debated this. So, what kind of treatment did Khrushchev suffer after he was forced to **?
What are the untold secrets behind this coup? Was China involved in the coup?
Let's take it slowly, Nikita Khrushchev meant exactly that.
Khrushchev's"The Great Reform"It is inevitable that there will be banter in later evaluations, but his reign did bring substantial development to the Soviet Union. Throughout the Soviet period, he was the only leader other than Lenin who tried to argue on an economic level for the superiority of socialism over capitalism.
From the current point of view, his thinking is undoubtedly correct. However, with the right goal, he did not take the right approach to achieve it. Therefore, Khrushchev's eight years in power gave the impression of being anticlimactic.
Khrushchev's reforms mainly involved three aspects: economic production, the appointment and dismissal of cadres, and foreign policy. In terms of economic production, Khrushchev was keen to promote corn cultivation throughout the country, but ignoring the vastly different agricultural production conditions in various parts of the Soviet Union led to a bumper harvest of corn in the Urals, but in the vast Siberian plain, most of the corn did not achieve the desired effect due to freezing to death.
The campaign to grow corn initiated by Khrushchev ended in failure, which led to a significant decline in grain production in the Soviet Union. In order to solve the problem of domestic hunger, Khrushchev was forced to import grain from Western countries.
At the same time, he actively expanded the international influence of the Soviet Union diplomatically, especially providing substantial economic assistance to third world countries such as China, Egypt, Algeria, etc.
Although it had not yet fallen into a state of reckless militarism, the Soviet Union still played the role of "big brother" in the socialist camp during this period.
The collapse of Khrushchev's reform is related to his reform of the internal cadre appointment and dismissal system in the Soviet Union. He tried to break the nepotism among the bureaucracy by banning *** propaganda and regularly rotating cadres.
Although these policies did not completely solve the problem of bureaucracy, they shook the foundations of the Soviet bureaucracy and provoked their discontent and complaints. Ultimately, the accumulation of these grievances led to a coup d'état against Khrushchev himself.
By the time Khrushchev's perestroika reached its climax, contradictions between him and the Soviet bureaucracy were inevitable. However, it was no accident that Brezhnev was able to become the leader of the coup.
As a representative of the conservative bureaucracy within the Soviet Union, Brezhnev was very slick and trusted by Stalin and Khrushchev, although he was mediocre. Therefore, no one is better suited to lead a coup d'état against Khrushchev, both in terms of political position and personal qualifications.
Brezhnev was regarded as his own by the coup gang because of his social love and close contact with many opponents of Khrushchev. At the beginning of October 1964, when Khrushchev was about to leave for a vacation on the Black Sea, he handed over all government affairs to Brezhnev and KGB leader Semychasny and others.
However, Khrushchev did not realize that a large net was quietly coming against him and the Soviet party and government apparatus, and soon he would completely withdraw from the Soviet political scene.
On October 14, 1964, Khrushchev suddenly heard the news of his resignation on the radio. Indignant in his heart, he tried to call the Kremlin's ** to understand this sudden change.
However, the moment he picked up the **, he found that the line had been cut off by the KGB. Khrushchev seemed to understand everything in an instant, and the matter had come to this point, and he could only accept the fate of **.
However, he said to the ** who was in charge of monitoring him that there were still some things that had not been done, and he hoped to return to Moscow to deal with them. But his request was immediately denied.
After Khrushchev was forced to leave the center of power, Brezhnev tried to take revenge by instructing the KGB ** to carry out an assassination. However, the head of the KGB, Semychasny, considered Khrushchev to be a former leader of the USSR and a direct assassination of him was unacceptable.
In the face of the resolute opposition of Semichasny and the KGB, Brezhnev could only dismiss Semichasny from his post, but did not continue to harm Khrushchev, but only made him a person with a special pension.
Despite the fact that Khrushchev was deprived of power, his life was preserved.
Immediately after Khrushchev**, Brezhnev abolished the reform policies of his tenure and retained a large number of bureaucratic nepotism, which had a key impact on the collapse of the Soviet Union.
At the same time, speculation about China's involvement in the coup is widely circulated on the Chinese internet, but the truth remains to be clarified.
In fact, Khrushchev had a dispute with our leaders over the idea of stationing troops in China, but he was always cautious about China. However, after Brezhnev came to power, the Soviet Union put forward the "theory of limited sovereignty", which made China even more unacceptable.
Khrushchev's ** was only an infighting among the Soviet bureaucracy and had nothing to do with China. Brezhnev provided him with a residence, but his life was full of surveillance.
He even wrote to the Kremlin about this absurd situation, complaining in his usual rugged style of language: "I'm retired, why are you still watching me so closely?" There's even your *** in my bucket, do you just want to hear my ass? ”
After Khrushchev retired, in addition to writing letters, he began a new creative project - writing memoirs. However, due to the lack of systematic collation, his memoirs appear messy and jumpy.
When Brezhnev learned of this, he immediately sent the KGB ** to seize Khrushchev's manuscript and warned him not to write any more memoirs. However, Khrushchev was not deterred by this, and he still insisted on completing his memoirs under close surveillance.
However, because his personal freedom was restricted, he had a difficult time publishing the book.
Khrushchev decided to ask his daughter Nina to help take the manuscript of his memoirs out of the residence in his luggage. Nina then gave the manuscripts to a number of Western publishers, allowing Khrushchev's memoirs to be shared with the world.
When he finally saw his memoirs published, he was very satisfied. At this time, he has long lost the fighting spirit he once had on the **, and napping in the chair every day has become the greatest pleasure in his life.
On September 11, 1971, Khrushchev died of a myocardial infarction in a hospital near Moscow at the age of 77.
Khrushchev's tombstone has long been sealed by time. Despite the controversy surrounding his reforms, his dedication to the communist cause and his dedication to the Soviet Union have been remembered by history.
Even though the Soviet Union has been in place for many years, there are still people who come to the Novodevichy Cemetery to pay their respects to the Soviet-era leader of the country. Khrushchev, although not flawless, his unique personal experience and political methods left a deep historical imprint on the former red power.