The World - News from March 30, 1987
The son-in-law of the late Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, ousted from a senior post when Khrushchev fell from power in 1964, called for more honesty in the presentation of Soviet history. In an article in the journal Ogonyok, Alexei Adzhubei, 62, said young people have been turned into cynics by the constant rewriting of history books and the books’ silence on key figures and periods of the past. Adzhubei was an influential figure in the Kremlin from 1959 to 1964, when he was editor-in-chief of the government newspaper Izvestia and a Khrushchev adviser.
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