Karl Vaino

Karl Vaino ( born May 28, 1923 in Tomsk ) is a former Estonian Communist politician.

Life

Karl Vaino was born in the western part of Siberia in a estnischstämmige family. He spoke, however, his life only very fragmentary Estonian. Vaino made ​​a Communist Party career within the CPSU.

1978 John Käbin in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Party ( ECP ) has been replaced. Leonid Brezhnev accused him of excessive Estonian sentiments. Successor was the Moscow-backed Karl Vaino. He put the instructions of the Kremlin by strict and forced Russification of Estonia. Vaino was especially unpopular because he held almost all the speeches in Russian and Soviet repression service apparatus.

In the era of Gorbachev broke up in 1988, the EKP an Estonian -minded wing and a Moscow-backed faction, which became more and more in the minority. Karl Vaino was replaced on 16 June 1988 by the Soviet leaders by the former Soviet ambassador to Venezuela and Nicaragua, the reform-oriented Vaino Väljas as party chairman of the EKP. A few weeks later, in November 1988, Väljas initiated the first steps towards secession of Estonia by the Soviet Union.

Karl Vaino then went from Tallinn to Moscow, where he lives quietly today.