Yegor Ligachev

Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev (Russian Егор Кузьмич Лигачёв; * November 29, 1920 in the village Dubinkino in the Novosibirsk Oblast ) is a former politician of the Soviet Union. During perestroika, called transformation in the USSR was Ligachev as one of the most conservative members of the Politburo of the CPSU.

Biography

Youth and Education

Ligachev was born in a small village in the Novosibirsk Oblast. In 1937, he joined the school in Novosibirsk successfully. From 1938 to 1943 he attended the State - Ordzhonikidze Aviation Institute in Moscow. He was, therefore, as many Soviet Polit sizes, an engineer. In 1944, he joined the CPSU ( B). In 1951, he also studied at the Party School of the Communist Party.

Political rise

Ligachev became First Secretary of the Novosibirsk Komsomol after 1952. From 1959 to 1961 he was chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Novosibirsk. From 1961 he worked in a leading position in the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow. He was 1965-1983 First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Tomsk Oblast of the CPSU.

In 1983 he was appointed secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and was responsible for management (staff), ideology and party management, and in 1988 for agricultural matters. From 1985 to 1990 he was a member of the highest committee of the CPSU, the Politburo. In his political ascent, he was promoted by Leonid Brezhnev, but then by Yuri Andropov. His conservative line he represented during the perestroika. At the beginning - that is to say from 1985 to 1987 - he was held as second in command to Mikhail Gorbachev in the party and brought from there into the Politburo.

Opponents of the reforms

Increasingly, however, he developed an opposition to its reform in the Soviet Communist Party and the intentions of Prime Minister Nikolai Ryschkows to introduce the first market- based elements in the economic system. Boris Yeltsin named him in 1988 as a brakeman reform and demanded his deselection. On September 19, 1989, Ligachev spoke out during a visit of the GDR Politburo member Günter Mittag against an opening of the Hungarian border. The dispute between the camps came to a head when XXVIII. Congress of the CPSU in July 1990, in which Gorbachev receives a clear majority for his reform program. The now 70 -year-old Ligachev also fell in the election for Deputy Secretary-General with 776 in favor and 3642 votes against clear through and lost his position as a member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee.

Politicians in Russia after 1992

From 1999 to 2003 - that is, in the III. Legislature - he was a deputy of the Duma, the Russian parliament as a member of the Group of KPdRF. He was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Veterans.

Quote

" In the person of Gorbachev and the majority of his accomplices, we are dealing with typical political degeneration. You have betrayed the cause to which they were called to serve, and are eventually defected to the positions of anti-communism, the anti-Soviet, anti patriotism. Why? I have come to the conclusion: This was a drive toward private property.

Now they are all dollar millionaires, and many even billionaires. This applies to both Nazarbayev and Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Karimov, Niyazov, Shevardnadze and others. They all have a huge fortune. For the people of a great country have become victims of their policies. "

Trivia

In the book The wall stands on the Rhine by Christian von Ditfurth to Ligachev staged a coup to power and leaves the German reunification " mirrored" full pull.

Publications

• Judgment of an insider. Ligachev looking back. In: Red Fox, June 2005, p 7
• Who Betrayed the Soviet Union? Publisher The New Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-360-02153-3 Attack against everything headquarters. Preprint. The failure of perestroika. In: Young World, 6/7 October 2012, pp. 10f.