The performance of Nikita Khrushchev's great-granddaughter was canceled at the Yeltsin Center. Z activists complained about the woman's anti-war statements and accused her of spying • Novaya Gazeta Europe • RIMA

The performance of Nikita Khrushchev's great-granddaughter was canceled at the Yeltsin Center. Z activists complained about the woman's anti-war statements and accused her of spying

The Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg canceled the presentation of the book by Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of the former first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev. This was reported to E1.RU by the center's management.

Nina Khrushcheva, photo: Yeltsin Center website

On November 26, the great-granddaughter of the former head of the USSR was supposed to present the book “Nikita Khrushchev. The leader is outside the system." The planned event was criticized by large Z-patriotic communities and some politicians.

Thus, State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov called Khrushcheva’s speech “an exhibit of Russophobia.” The Veterans of Russia movement called for the leadership of the Yeltsin Center to be held accountable for allowing the event with Khrushchev’s great-granddaughter.

“Today’s actions of such lecturers are not much different from the propaganda of the fascists during the Great Patriotic War.

We cannot allow hostile ideas to wreak havoc and destruction in our society. Those who allow such people to speak must be held accountable,” said deputy chairman of the organization Ildar Rezyapov.

According to SHOT, members of the Z-movement “Call of the People” appealed to the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor General’s Office with a demand to recognize Khrushchev as a “foreign agent”, and also to check that she is not an attempt on the territorial integrity of Russia and espionage. According to activists, the woman “publicly promotes a radical anti-Russian position,” condemns the “SVO” and “talks about the collapse of Russia.”

“Such behavior on the part of Nikita Khrushchev’s great-granddaughter only causes disgust and bewilderment. I believe in the unity of Russia and its people, and condemn any attempts to destroy this connection,” said the head of the movement, Sergei Zaitsev.

Nina Khrushcheva is 61 years old, a political scientist and professor at New School University in New York. She has lived in the United States since the early 1990s.