Interview with Nina Khrushcheva (Nikita's granddaughter)

[deminks]

I was watching an interview this morning with Nina Khrushchev. I couldn't find that one online but found one here

http://thesouthern.com/news/opinion/editorial/parker/parker-putin-views-self-actions-as-heroic/article_74be4a60-f0ea-5c81-93ed-824ad3b23483.html?comment_form=true


(snip)

As translated by Khrushcheva from Russian, Putin said, "It was unclear what Khrushchev was motivated by. Maybe he wanted the Ukrainian nomenclature to be on his side. Maybe he felt responsible for the mass repressions he organized in Ukraine."

"Really?" says Nina, her eyebrow an audible arch. "Mass repressions? And this from the man who has been trying to rehabilitate Stalin, the czar of mass repressions, since the moment he got into the Kremlin. Oh the gulag of the Russian mind!"

(snip)

Khrushcheva, an associate professor of international affairs at The New School in New York, is no fan of Putin, one might have guessed. A woman who prefers simplicity, she is direct, blunt and, at times, wickedly funny. Would that President Obama had a foreign policy, she says, adding that she is a loyal Democrat. Would that Americans understood Putin for what he is -- no mere bully, he is "an old KGB chinovnik [petty clerk]."

Although Putin enjoys the popular image of the terrifying KGB agent, Khrushcheva says he was really a clerk whose nickname was "Moth." More Miss Moneypenny than James Bond.

(end snip)

[JI7]

1. interesting, will read this later