Sergei Khrushchev

At the very height of the Cold War, in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, one of the most vilified man in the world – at least in the U.S. – was Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, For 11 years the USSR was led by this brash, arrogant, often angry man. You may have heard that he wants. Famously said the Soviet Union would “bury” the United States. That, however, was a mistranslation, and it was not something Khrushchev ever actually said. Khrushchev's second son, Sergei, was in his 20s, watching closely as his father guided the USSR. Sergei eventually became a highly educated, and well-respected, engineer in the Soviet Union. But finally, in 1991 -- the same year the Soviet Union crumbled apart -- Sergei Khrushchev emigrated to the United States, and became a naturalized US citizen in 1999.