Библия Времени. Найди свое. Лим Ворд
application of L. Beria, there is also a decree prohibiting the use of any physical measures against the arrested.
On July 7, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU takes Beria out of the Central Committee. Artistic images of it are everywhere being seized; even the subscribers of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia come letters with an urgent offer to replace the «Beria» page.
The description of the execution on December 23, 1953, the court records may have been written later. According to the memories of the participants of the events, the murder of Beria took place on June 26, during his arrest, N. Khrushchev or Marshal G. Zhukov.
5. Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (Scriabin), 1890—1986. Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars (Council of People’s Commissars), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. A native of Vyatka province (Kirov region). Father – a clerk, a philistine, a mother from a merchant family. He studies in Kazan, is arrested for revolutionary activity, since 1912 he works as secretary of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda. He accepts the industrial pseudonym of Molotov. 1930 – Molotov replaces Alexei Rykov as Labor and Defense Council (his predecessor, after whom «proletarian» vodka was named, was shot in 1938). He takes part in the «dekulakization», heads the relevant Extraordinary Commission of the SNK of the USSR for grain procurements, raises, on his own initiative, a plan for the surrender of grain to the state, which leads to the famine of 1932—33, the death of 5 million people. In 1936, Scriabin objected to lawsuits over longtime friends – Kamenev and Zinoviev, but already in 1937 he became the record holder for the drafting of «shoot lists».
Since 1939, Molotov, while maintaining his former post, becomes a People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs. As always in the Stalinist USSR, while the former apparatus is being cleaned, the employees closest to their predecessor are being arrested and, in the majority, shot. However, Maxim Maximovich Litvinov (Wallach) himself survives.
In general, Stalin is pleased with the new People’s Commissar. And, on March 8, 1940 the city of Perm is renamed Molotov, and the Perm Region, respectively, into Molotovskaya.
At 5 am on June 22, 1941, German Ambassador V. Schulenburg came to Molotov and announced the beginning of the war. Already at 12 o’clock in the afternoon the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs speaks on the radio with a speech that ends with famous words; «Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours».
In May-June 1942, Molotov, on the bomber Pe-8 makes a flight to England, and then to the US, where he conducts quite successful negotiations on military assistance, cooperation, and non-conclusion of a separate peace with Germany.
He signs an order for the production of Molotov cocktails, which were invented by the Finns before (here is an incident), and were called the «Molotov Cocktail.» Later, the name of this, basically, anti-tank weapon becomes common, slightly modified, gets accustomed, first of all, in English; Molotov Cocktail. The weapon is simple, but dangerous; Two storm matches are screwed to the side of the bottle, into which gasoline, kerosene and (the Finnish version) – tar are bottled. By the way, now in the US storage, the application of the «Molotov Cocktail» in any disassembly is punishable by a non-childish term, up to 30 years.
After the war, Maxim Maksimovich supervised education, science (popular among intellectuals) and law enforcement agencies. He worked, in his own way, on conscience, but, nevertheless, on March 4, 1949, was removed from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs (Anatoly Vyshinsky occupied the chair). The official reason is a principled agreement to issue bourgeois newspapers in the country, and so forth. In the same year, arrested his wife, shocking Polina Zhemchuzhnaya (to whom, incidentally, all the information received by her husband at Politburo meetings was merged).
The death shadow touched Molotov, but then it flew by; in 1953, after the death of the leader, Scriabin became a minister, and even reunited with his beloved wife. In 1957 he intrigues against Khrushchev. But the post of First Secretary is not got to the intriguer. Nikita Sergeyevich promptly gathers the Plenum of the Central Committee. This overwhelming majority is being deposed by almost the entire old Presidium of the Central Committee (including the «Shepilov Minister of Foreign Affairs who joined them,» who joined them).
Three cities named after Molotov – Severodvinsk, Nolinsk, as well as the current pioneer camp «Artek», without noise, are renamed. The times are not the same as at least four years earlier, so the troublemaker simply sends the USSR ambassador to Mongolia. Scriabin gives signs of activity and there, criticizes the decisions of the party; in 1963 he was removed from all posts, expelled from the CPSU, sent to a well-deserved pension.
Molotov, according to his confession, still «lived to a happy old age» and died at the age of 96, from myocardial infarction.
6. Vyshinsky Andrey Yanuarievich (Polish: Andrzej Wyszyński), 1883—1954. Prosecutor of the USSR, Minister of Foreign Affairs, member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Doctor of Law, Rector of Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Father – comes from a Polish noble family, pharmacist, mother – teacher of music. According to some statements, before the revolution, he «sat» in one cell with Stalin. Since 1928 – public prosecutor in political processes, since 1933 – Prosecutor of the USSR. Quotation: «Our whole country… waits and demands one: traitors and spies who sold their homeland to the enemy, to be shot like rotten dogs!» VYSHINSKY has the thesis that «… the defendant has the burden of proving the circumstances justifying him». In addition, «Recognition is the queen of evidence» – Regina probationum – a winged Roman expression, although formally disproved by the Prosecutor in one of his works, but it was from his submission that he spread throughout the entire administrative-repressive system. Strictly speaking, documents are just documents, you can write in one monograph in one way, in another you can say what you think, like that; «The explanations of the accused… inevitably acquire the character and significance of the basic evidence, the most important, decisive evidence»
It should be noted that the «probationary region» is in use right now, in many countries of the world, Russia, the United States, etc. This principle indeed simplifies the conduct of proceedings, but it also allows the closure of dozens of undisclosed cases on the basis of a written application of the suspect. In this case, of course, there is no real investigation or detection of criminals. It is not clear how such unjustified sentences are canceled. In addition, of course, «frank confession» may be the result of acceptance of a so-called «Measures of physical impact.»
Ander Vyshinsky, the central apparatus of the NKVD of the USSR albums (inquiries on investigative cases), examination of which is entrusted to several heads of departments (in the eyes of those who did not see these cases themselves). During the evening, each of them makes 200—300 verdicts. The list is reprinted, written to Yezhov, and then sent by courier to Vyshinsky for signature. So, for example, on December 29 Yezhov and Vyshinsky, having examined albums for 1000 persons, sentenced to the shooting of 992 people…
…I remember at work, in an old apartment, we, ordinary workers, found a book of Vyshinsky’s speeches (in fact, fiery, clear, even fascinating). Two comrades, reading the book at their leisure, straightforwardly uttered something like «What kind of scoundrels must be… to damage their people like this?» They are the ones convicted of the Stalinist system. That’s how to talk about it? Spread everything you know? This is a long, rather tedious and, perhaps, will not bring a weight lecturer in society. Most people still have porridge in their heads. At the same time dozens of television studios shoot endless series about bandits, nannies, wood-grouse, traffic cops and prostitutes.
…Andrey Yanuarievich died of a heart attack in New York, cremated, the ashes were walled in the Kremlin wall.
7. Stanislav Kosior (Polish Stanisław Kosior), 1889—1939, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the USSR. Birth – Siedletskaya gubernia, the Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Empire, now – Mazowieckie, Poland. The