Boris Pugo

Boris Karlovich Pugo ( Latvian Boris's Pugo; Russian Борис Карлович Пуго; born February 19, 1937 in Kalinin (now Tver ), † 22 August 1991, Moscow ) was a Russian-born Latvian- Soviet politician.

Life

Pugo completed his studies at the Riga Polytechnic Institute in 1960 and worked in various positions in the Komsomol, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (member since 1963) and in the government, both in Latvia and in Moscow. He also served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Latvian SSR (1969/1970), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the USSR (1970-1974), co-workers, then first secretary of the city committee of the Communist Party in Riga (1975/1976) and finally, from 1977 Deputy Chairman of the KGB in 1980 and in Latvia. From 1984 to 1988 Pugo was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia. In 1988 he became chairman of the Party Control Committee of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

1986 Pugo was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU and 1989 to members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU. He was from 1984 to 1989 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and since 1989 a member of the People's Deputies Congress.

As of December 11, 1990, he held the post of Minister of the Interior of the USSR. He participated as a member of the State Committee for the State of Emergency on the unsuccessful August coup in Moscow against Mikhail Gorbachev. Pugo shot himself in the attempted arrest itself Various media, including Time Magazine and the Moscow Times, questioned this view and suspected murder.