Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev

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Yegor Ligatschow Is Greeted by a Peasant Woman During a Visit to the GDR (September 13, 1989)

Yegor Kuzmich Ligatschow ( Russian Егор Кузьмич Лигачёв ; born November 29, 1920 in the village of Dubinkino in Tomsk Governorate ; † May 7, 2021 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician . At the time of perestroika under General Secretary Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev , he was considered one of the conservative members of the CPSU Politburo .

biography

Youth and education

Ligachev was born in a small village in Tomsk Governorate. In 1937 he successfully completed school in Novosibirsk . From 1938 to 1943 he attended the Moscow State Aviation Institute " Grigory Ordzhonikidze " in Moscow . Like many Soviet politicians, he became an engineer. In 1944 he joined the CPSU. In 1951 he also studied at the party college of the CPSU .

Political rise

Ligachev became the 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 CPSU in Moscow. From 1965 to 1983 he was First Secretary of the Tomsk Oblast Regional Committee of the CPSU.

In 1983 he was promoted to secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and was responsible for cadres , ideology and party administration and, from 1988, for agricultural affairs . From 1985 to 1990 he was a member of the highest body of the CPSU, the Politburo. During his political ascent he was promoted by Leonid Brezhnev , but then by Yuri Andropov . He also took his conservative line during perestroika. At the beginning - around 1985 to 1987 - he was considered the second man in the party after Mikhail Gorbachev and was brought into the Politburo by him.

Opponents of reforms

Increasingly, however, he developed opposition to the new reform course in the CPSU and to Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov's intentions to introduce the first market economy elements into the economic system. Boris Yeltsin described him in 1988 as a reform brakeman and demanded that he be voted out of office. On September 19, 1989, during a visit by GDR Politburo member Günter Mittag , Ligatschow spoke out against opening the Hungarian border. The dispute between the camps came to a head at the XXVIII. CPSU party congress of July 1990, at which Gorbachev received a clear majority for his reform program. The now 70-year-old Ligachev also fell through in the election as Deputy General Secretary with 776 votes in favor and 3,642 against and lost his post as a member of the Politburo and as secretary of the Central Committee.

Politicians in Russia after 1992

From 1999 to 2003 - in the III. Legislative period - he was a member of the Duma , the Russian parliament, as a member of the faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation . He was vice chairman of the Veterans Committee.

Quote

“In the person of Gorbachev and the majority of his accomplices, we are dealing with typical political degeneration. They betrayed the cause they were called to serve and ultimately defected the positions of anti-communism, anti-Sovietism, and anti-patriotism. Why? I have come to the conclusion: This was because of the urge for private property.

Now they are all dollar millionaires, and many are even dollar billionaires. This applies to Nazarbayev as well as Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Karimov, Niyazov, Shevardnadze and others. They all have enormous fortunes. For this, the peoples of a large country have become victims of their politics. "

Trivia

In the book The Wall stands on the Rhine by Christian von Ditfurth , Ligatschow put himself to power and had German reunification carried out “the wrong way round”.

Publications

  • Judgment from an insider. Ligachev looks back. In: Rotfuchs, June 2005 , p. 7.
  • What happened to the CPSU? In: Rotfuchs, July 2005 , p. 21.
  • Who betrayed the Soviet Union? Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-360-02153-3 .
  • Attack against everything central. The failure of perestroika (preprint) In: Junge Welt , 6./7. October 2012, p. 10f.

Web links

Commons : Yegor Ligachev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Скончался Егор Лигачев. In: rg.ru. May 7, 2021, accessed May 7, 2021 (in Russian).
  2. ↑ Judgment of an insider. Ligachev looks back. In: Rotfuchs , June 2005, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Ligachev, Yegor Kuzmich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лигачёв, Егор Кузьмич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubinkino, Tomsk Governorate
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Moscow