Nikolay Kruchina

Nikolai Efimovich Krutschina (Russian Николай Ефимович Кручина; born May 14, 1928 in the Altai region; † August 26, 1991 in Moscow) was a Soviet party functionary.

Life

He was from 1983 Managing Director of the CPSU and the last treasurer of the Central Committee before the dissolution of the party in August 1991.

As stewards of the party 's assets he conducted the often covert financing of Communist parties abroad. Towards the end of the Soviet Union, the majority of these assets were invested in newly created cooperatives and joint ventures or placed with the help of the KGB out of the country. An attempt by the work-up of the exact use of these funds not been carried out yet.

1991, five days after the failed August coup, Krutschina died in a fall from the balcony of his apartment on the 5th floor. It was found a suicide note in which Krutschina asserted that he was not a conspirator but a " coward ".