Citizen Khrushchev

Sergei Khrushchev breezed through the U.S. citizenship test on Wednesday, and next month he will take the oath of citizenship, swearing loyalty to a country and a way of life that Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev his late father once promised to bury. “Our heart is here. We will be good citizens,” 63-year-old Sergei Khrushchev said after both he and his wife, Valentina Golenko, passed the test with flying colors. Khrushchev, who moved to the United States in 1991, says he likes the freedom he found here. A professor at Brown University, he and his wife have a ranch house in a suburb of Providence, R.I. So, is Nikita Khrushchev spinning in his grave? “The world has changed,” his son said, adding: “I hope he would approve.”