Khrushchev’s Son to Become U.S. Citizen
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The late Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev once promised to bury America. Now his son, Sergei, plans to become an American citizen.
“It is not so special or a political decision any longer,” Sergei Khrushchev, 63, said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
“I and my wife have been living here for eight years and we plan on living here longer. We like it here and I believe that when you’re living in a country like this, you have to become a citizen,” Khrushchev said.
He teaches international studies with an emphasis on the Soviet Union at Brown University.
He and his wife, Valentina Golenko, are scheduled to take a written test at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service offices in Providence on June 23.
Khrushchev has written several books about his father, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1953 until he was ousted in 1964. Nikita Khrushchev died in 1971.
At the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev told the United States: “We will bury you,” and he boasted that his rockets could hit a fly over the United States.
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