Alexander Poskrebyshev

Alexander Nikolayevich Poskrjobyschew (Russian Александр Николаевич Поскрёбышев, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Nikolaevich Poskrëbyšev; * 26 Julijul / August 7 1891greg in Uspenskoe, Circle Slobodskoi, Vyatka province, .. † January 3, 1965 in Moscow) was from 1935 to 1952 Secretary Stalin.

Life

Traditions of contemporaries According to Poskrjobyschew was characterized by a phenomenal memory and a strong work ethic, which is not manifested in work days of less than 16 hours. He was the filter, passed through the any information to Stalin, and it was one of his tasks, the correspondence received, accompanied by its own considerations - where Stalin listened to his advice in many cases. However, the ratio of the secretary must have been a pronounced dependence relationship to his superiors. As Poskrjobyschews woman - widely intermarried with Trotsky - was arrested in 1937, Stalin Reserve left him, contrary to the usual handling of family members of " enemies of the people " at his post. Poskrjobyschew, probably driven by concern for his wife, was the more faithful to the minions of the "big landlord ". Its power over his secretary went to the memoirs Yuri Trifonov According, to the use of physical force. At a joint hospitalization, the former secretary is said to have entrusted the writer: "He [ Stalin ] has beaten me! By the hair, he grabbed me and hit me with his head against the table top ... "

In November 1952, Stalin removed, probably under pressure from Beria, Poskrjobyschew from his apparatus. His wife was shot in the same year under the pretext of espionage. By early 1953 he was arrested in connection with the " doctors' plot ", but was released after Stalin's death in March. For years there was confusion about his whereabouts; Rumors circulated that he had been liquidated. However Poskrjobyschew remained first in the Central Committee and left politics in 1956, after the XX. Congress of the CPSU, on the Khrushchev personally attacked him in his " secret speech " and referred to as Stalin's " faithful squires ". He died in 1965 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

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