Karl Vaino

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Karl Vaino ( Russian Карл Генрихович Вайно ; born May 28, 1923 in Tomsk ) is a former communist Estonian politician.

Early years

Karl Vaino was born in the western part of Siberia into a family of Estonian descent. His father, Genrich (Heinrich) Vaino (1889–1965), who came from the Järva district , came to Russia as a soldier in 1918 , while his mother's family, Lidia Savi, came to Siberia a few years earlier. Both parents were members of the CPSU . Karl Vaino joined the party in 1947.

Karl Vaino graduated from Tomsk Middle School in 1941. He first began his studies at the Railway War Engineering Institute in Novosibirsk , which was moved to Tomsk in 1943. He completed his studies as a railway engineer at the Electrical Engineering Institute there in 1947. He was posted to the Estonian SSR , where he was initially employed in Tapa in a locomotive depot.

Politician

He then decided on a career within the Soviet nomenklatura. He was mainly promoted by the Soviet-Estonian politician Aleksei Müürisepp . From 1948 Karl Vaino was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia (EKP). In 1952 he became party secretary of the Tallinn Oblast Committee. A year later he headed the Department for Industry and Transport of the Central Committee of the EKP. In 1957 he graduated from the CPSU Higher Party School. From 1960 to 1978 Karl Vaino was secretary of the Central Committee of the EKP.

In July 1978 Johannes Käbin was replaced as first secretary of the Central Committee of the EKP. Leonid Brezhnev accused Käbin of too strong an Estonian attitude. Karl Vaino, who was loyal to Moscow, was chosen as his successor. Vaino strictly enforced the instructions of the Kremlin in the Estonian SSR and pushed for the Russification of Estonia. Vaino therefore remained unpopular in the Estonian-speaking population, especially since he gave almost all speeches in Russian and expanded the Soviet repressive apparatus.

Deposition

During the Gorbachev era in 1988, the EKP split into an Estonian-minded wing and a faction loyal to Moscow. In the course of the “ Singing Revolution ” the latter became more and more of a minority. On June 16, 1988, Karl Vaino was replaced by the Soviet rulers by the former Soviet ambassador to Venezuela and Nicaragua , the reform-oriented Vaino Väljas (* 1931), who was born in Estonia and became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the EKP and party chairman. Only a few weeks later, in November 1988, Väljas initiated the first steps towards the separation of Estonia from the Soviet Union.

Karl Vaino moved from Tallinn to Moscow two years later , where he now lives in seclusion.

Private life

In 1949 Karl Vaino's son Eduard Vaino was born, who made a career in the Russian car industry at AwtoWAS . Karl Vaino's grandson, the Russian diplomat Anton Waino , born in Tallinn in 1972 , has been Chairman of the Russian Presidential Administration and a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since August 2016 .

literature

  • Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 579

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ekspress.delfi.ee/kuum/neli-polve-vainosid-siberi-reakommar-eesti-parteijuht-avtovazi-asepresident-ja-putini-aparaadiulem?id=63733598
personal data
SURNAME Vaino, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION communist Estonian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Tomsk