t the Army's grass roots. This was a very important job because it was the commissar's job to keep the troops fighting since desertion was as bad in the Red Army as it was in the White.
             By the Spring of 1920, Denkin' army had been pushed back down the Black Sea coast to Novorossisk, where part of it managed to escape to British and French navies. Units of the 9th Army, including Khrushchev's, chased another contingent of White forces down the coast to the Georgian seaports of Sochi, and with their subsequent surrender Khrushchev's first military career came to an end. "It had been in no way particularly remarkable, although one Soviet source claims that by the war's end Khrushchev was working with the political department of the 9th Army which implies promotion. "Men like Khrushchev were the noncommissioned officers of the Bolshevik armies, a group essential for victory."
             In the Donbas, one third of all the industrial enterprises were ruined, and Khrushchev, along with oth
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