Alexei Kirichenko

Alexei Kirichenko Illarionovich (Russian: Алексей Илларионович Кириченко; * February 25, 1908 Cernobaevka in the Kherson Oblast, † December 28, 1975 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politicians.

Biography

Rise

Kirichenko, the son of a railway worker, had first visited the Traktoristenschule, then worked as a mechanic on state farms of the Ukraine and then on the Azov - Black Sea - Institute studied agricultural engineering. In 1930 he became a member of the CPSU. From 1938 to 1941 he was in the apparatus of the Ukrainian Central Committee worked, rose to become secretary of the Central Committee of the Ukraine in the period from 1941 to 1945 and then was between 1945 and 1949 First Secretary of the Party to the territory of Odessa. 1949 to 1953 he was Second and then First Secretary from 1953 to 1957 (ie party leader ) of the Central Committee of Ukraine; he solved in this position from ex Politburo member Leonid Melnikov. From 1952 to 1961 he was also a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

By Khrushchev in the center of power

After Joseph Stalin's death, he was one of the unconditionally loyal followers of the new First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev. From 1953 to 1955 he was therefore also member of the Political Bureau ( former name: Bureau ): Then he got together with Mikhail Suslov on to hold the highest political body of the USSR, he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ), and indeed in the period of 12 July 1955 to 4 May 1960. at the same time he was 19 December 1957 to May 4, 1960 Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party.

In favor

Beginning of 1960 he fell - as well as Politburo member Belyayev - in disgrace; he was replaced as Politburo member and secretary and deported as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the territory of Rostov, to be finally adopted, however, been 5 months later. It is unclear why the two Chruschtschowanhänger Kirichenko and Belyayev in 1960 removed from the center of power; the descent Khrushchev - in 1964 lost his post - distinguished from now.

If you believe the statements of Enver Hoxha, so Kirichenko probably sympathized with the Communist Party of China (CPC ), but certainly with the Party of Labour of Albania (PAA ). According to Hoxha Kirichenko told an Albanian diplomat, it was " excellent as your party (the PAA) Khrushchev has been debunked ." He also was against reconciliation with the Yugoslavs, who he looked like the Albanians as revisionists. Taking these statements Hoxha to be true, it would be conceivable that it Khrushchev removed because these positions.