Nestor Lakoba

Nestor Apollonowitsch Lakoba (Russian Нестор Аполлонович Лакоба; born May 1, 1893 in Lychny, Rajon Gudauta, Abkhazia, † December 28, 1936 in Tbilisi ) was an Abkhaz politician.

Biography

Nestor Lakoba was born in 1893 in Abkhaz Lychny. Due Bolshevik activities, he was persecuted by the Tsarist secret Okhrana early and made this way acquaintance with Joseph Stalin. In the following years they worked together.

After the October Revolution Lakoba made ​​first as a follower of Lenin's career. In the struggle for power during Lenin's illness and after his death Lakoba was in the Georgian supporters of Stalin. 1921, the Red Army occupied Georgia. Abkhazia Abkhazian SSR was awarded as first the status of an independent Soviet Republic. Lakoba was head of the Communist Party of Abkhazia. 1931 Abkhazia was, however, connected to the Georgian SSR.

Lakoba maintained good relationships with many influential officials of the Soviet Union. Nestor Lakoba and his brother Mikhail, who first held the post of People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later the People's Commissar of Agriculture in Abkhazia, hosted in 1925 a few months, Leon Trotsky and his wife, who stayed for health reasons in Abkhazia.

1932 Lakoba told his friend, the senior Georgian official Sergo Ordzhonikidze, that his main rival, the Transcaucasian party chief Lavrenty Beria, negative remarks about Ordzhonikidze had given of himself. The hint led to an exchange of letters between Beria and Ordzhonikidze, Beria apologized in the course of which, in a letter of 18 December 1932: "I admire you too much, in order to say such things. I ask you only one thing: no one faith "

Due to the huge popularity Lakobas Beria did not dare to arrest him. Lakoba and his brother were invited to the headquarters of the Georgian Communist Party in Tbilisi. There you Lakoba administered at a dinner with Beria poison, he died shortly afterwards. According to the official version Lakoba died of a heart attack. His body was transferred under great public participation ceremonially to Sukhumi, and buried in a state funeral. Nikita Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs that Lakobas body was unearthed on Beria's instructions to go back and burned as a remnant of an enemy of the people.