Nikolai Efimowitsch Kruchina
Nikolai Jefimowitsch Krutschina ( Russian: Николай Ефимович Кручина ; born May 14, 1928 in the Altai region ; † August 26, 1991 in Moscow ) was a Soviet party official.
Life
From 1983 he was managing director of the CPSU and the last treasurer of the Central Committee before the party was dissolved in August 1991.
As administrator of the party assets, he also managed the often covert financing of communist parties abroad. Towards the end of the Soviet Union, the majority of this fortune was invested in newly created cooperatives and joint ventures or taken outside the country with the help of the KGB . An attempt to work through the exact use of these funds has not yet taken place.
In 1991, five days after the failed August coup , Kruchina died falling from the balcony of his apartment on the fifth floor. A suicide note was found in which Kruchina asserted that he was not a conspirator, but a "coward".
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Klebnikov : The Godfather of the Kremlin. Boris Berezovsky and the power of the oligarchs . Econ, Munich 2001. ISBN 3430154758 , pp. 74-76
- ↑ Cash in the suitcase . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1991 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruchina, Nikolai Efimowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кручина, Николай Ефимович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet party official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altai region |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1991 |
| Place of death | Moscow |