Biography 23/03/20 Grigory Romanov: what became the main rival of Gorbachev to the post of “leader” of the USSR
Grigory V. Romanov, the Leningrad called “the owner”. Its activities are assessed in different ways: some believe Romanova strong leader, a good organizer, others a tyrant, smothering dissent. In the mid-1980s Romanov predicted in the post of General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and regarded as the chief rival of Mikhail Gorbachev.
the Beginning of party career,
Grigory Romanov was Born in the Novgorod region in the village a large family. In the Great Patriotic war in the Leningrad and Baltic fronts. After the war he graduated from the Leningrad shipbuilding College. Since the mid 50-ies started his party career, first at the Leningrad plant name after Zhdanov where Grigory worked, then Romanov began to promote the party line above.
From September 1970 to June of ‘ 83 G. V. Romanov, head of the Leningrad city party Committee, becoming the actual head of the city on the Neva.
Builder and oppressor
These 13 years – a key biography of Romanov. For them and thank him, and curse. Under Grigory Vasilyevich was opened 19 stations of the Leningrad metro, a major sports and cultural complex, the Palace of youth… At that time in Leningrad factories produced such world famous brands such as tractor Kirovets (K-700, many farms are successfully used to this day), ice drift Arctic, first reached the North pole. Romanov runs at the Leningrad nuclear power plant.
at the same time Grigory Romanov connects the repression of the representatives of culture and art, in particular, the persecution of dissidents. The negative impact Romanov say some leaders of the Leningrad television and theatre Tovstonogov BDT. However, in Leningrad from 1981 works of the Leningrad rock club, and since 1975 ispolnaetI’m the first Soviet rock Opera “Orpheus and Eurydice”.
an Unambiguous assessment of the relationship Romanova to all this harassment. Skeptics argue that Grigori was not so much a monster, as he is want to show. In particular, academician Dmitry Likhachev, repeatedly met with the first Secretary of the Leningrad regional Committee, said that with the Romanovs, despite its complexity, still “could agree”. If Romanov really was arrested or deported (from the country in remote areas of the USSR), a Leningrad dissidents. However, this question had engaged in “profile” the Fifth Directorate of the KGB, and is unlikely to accelerate this process required the personal intervention of the first Secretary of the regional Committee.
However, shortly before the death of Gregory V. in his interview to “the Russian newspaper” openly admitted a dislike for the work of the writer Daniil Granin – Romanov did not like the attitude of the writer to the siege of Leningrad. The famous “Siege book” D. A. Granin and Adamovich, Leningrad came only when G. V. Romanov in 1984 he moved to work in Moscow.
the demonization of the “boss” of the city on the Neva contributed to the story of the “dishes from the Hermitage,” which Grigory Romanov allegedly used at his daughter’s wedding. This fact, although widely discussed in the foreign press during the Soviet era, their confirmation was never found.
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
Since 1983, Romanov in Moscow, he entered the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, was in charge in this capacity the military-industrial complex. According to the official, “dragged” him to Moscow to Brezhnev. Some historians, political analysts believe that a relatively young and promising politician Novels at the time, hypothetically, could change the post of three General secretaries – Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko: every time he had the opportunity. But as a result of internal party intrigues stronger competitors and their supporters Romanov to do it every time failed.
Why didn’t he became Secretary General
Grigory Romanov considered the antithesis of Gorbachev. The Communist party’s leaders still believe that if Grigory took the place of the General Secretary of the CPSU after the death of Konstantin Chernenko, instead of Gorbachev, the USSR would not have collapsed: Gorbachev raised the West, a little afraid intractable Romanov.
When he died, Chernenko, Romanov was on vacation in Sochi. When Grigori arrived in Moscow, everything was already decided without him. The team Romanova there were 2 member of Central Committee – Shcherbitsky and Kunayev. Both supposedly did not arrive at a decisive meeting of the Plenum of the fault of the supporters of Gorbachev. Shcherbitsky was in business trip in the US, and Kunaev just in time not notified about the death of Konstantin Ustinovich. In the end, the plenary discussed only one candidate for the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the party – Mikhail Gorbachev. In fact, Mikhail Gorbachev, and was the acting of Konstantin Chernenko during his illness.
As a member of the political Bureau was out of business
In March 1985, Gorbachev became General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, and in July G. V. Romanov, the decision of the Plenum of the Central Committee withdrew from the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Central Committee, explaining that his retirement “for health reasons”. Although Romanov was at that time only 62 years – for a politician it’s just a Mature age. Say, Romanov asked Gorbachev about leadership, but was refused.
For 23 years of his later life G. V. Romanov no key posts no longer occupied. In 1998 Yeltsin appointed him to a personal pension for his great contribution to the development of the domestic industry.
he Died Grigory Romanov in 2008 in Moscow and was buried at Kuntsevo cemetery.
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