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Vladimir Ivashko

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In this name that followsEastern Slavic naming customs,thepatronymicisAntonovichand thefamily nameisIvashko.

Vladimir Ivashko
Владимир Ивашко
Володимир Івашко
ActingGeneral Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
24 August 1991 – 29 August 1991
Preceded byMikhail Gorbachev
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Deputy General Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
12 July 1990 – 29 August 1991
General SecretaryMikhail Gorbachev
Preceded byYegor Ligachev
Succeeded byPosition abolished
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office
28 September 1989 – 22 June 1990
Preceded byVolodymyr Shcherbytsky
Succeeded byStanislav Hurenko
Chairmanof theSupreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR
In office
4 June – 9 July 1990
Preceded byPlaton Kostiuk
Succeeded byLeonid Kravchuk
Full member of the27th,28thPolitburo
In office
9 December 1989 – 29 August 1991
Member of the28thSecretariat
In office
14 July 1990 – 29 August 1991
Personal details
Born28 October 1932
Poltava,Ukrainian SSR,Soviet Union
Died13 November 1994(1994-11-13)(aged 62)
Moscow,Russian Federation
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
Signature

Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko(Russian:Влади́мир Анто́нович Ива́шко;Ukrainian:Володимир Антонович Івашко,Volodymyr Antonovych Ivashko;28 October 1932 – 13 November 1994) was aSoviet Ukrainianpolitician, briefly acting asGeneral Secretaryof theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union(CPSU) during the period from 24 to 29 August 1991. On 24 AugustMikhail Gorbachevresigned from the post, and on 29 August the CPSU was suspended by theSupreme Soviet.Before becoming General Secretary he had been voted Gorbachev's Deputy General Secretary within the Party on 12 July 1990, a newly created position as a result of the28th Congress of the Communist Party.

Biography[edit]

TheCommunist Party of the Soviet Union(CPSU) during the time betweenMikhail Gorbachev's resignation and its suspension was politically impotent. By the time of the 28th Congress in July 1990, the party was largely regarded as being unable to lead the country and had, across the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, split into opposing factions favouring either independent republics or the continuation of the Soviet state. Stripped of its leading role in society, the party lost its authority to lead the nation or the cohesion that kept the party united. Actual political power lay in the positions ofPresident of the Soviet Union(held by Gorbachev) andPresident of the Russian SFSR(held byBoris Yeltsin). During theAugust Couphe did not make public statements but on behalf of theSecretariatdistributed letters to local party organizations calling on them to uphold the CPSU.

Gorbachev brought in his ally Ivashko in to replace the long-servingVolodymyr ShcherbytskyasFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraineon 28 September 1989. Ivashko led the Communists to victory in thefirst relatively free parliamentary electionheld in the Ukrainian SSR, which took place from 4 March to 18 March 1990, the Communists winning 331 seats to theDemocratic Bloc's 111 seats. Ivashko was elected by the communist majority to the post of theChairmanof theVerkhovna Radaof theUkrainian SSRon 4 June 1990. Since the abandonment by the Communists of their "leading role"in early 1990 this position now superseded that of First Secretary of the Communist Party as the most powerful position in Ukraine.

He resigned his position as First Secretary on 22 June 1990 following opposition demonstrations against his simultaneous occupation of both the posts of First Secretary of the ruling party and Chairman of the legislature. However, on 9 July 1990 he too resigned as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR after declining to be recalled to Kyiv during the28th Congress of the Communist Partyin Moscow, and a few days later successfully secured the position of Deputy General Secretary of the CPSU.

On August 23, 1990, a secret memorandum from Ivashko outlined strategies to hide theCommunist Party's assets through Russian and international joint ventures because Boris Yeltsin, who was the new president of the Russian Republic in theSoviet Union,wanted to levy taxes on the Communist Party's vast administrative property holdings and on the party itself.[1]The memorandum was to organize the transfer ofCPSUfunds, CPSU financing and support of its operations through associations, ventures, foundations, etc. which are to act as invisible economics.[2][a]In November 1990, the offshore structureFimacowas formed by theGosbankto hide these funds.[4][5]According toSergei Tretyakov,KGBchiefVladimir Kryuchkovsent US$50 billion worth of funds of the Communist Party to an unknown location in the lead-up to thecollapse of the USSR.[6][7][b]

Following the failedAugust 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt,Gorbachev resigned from his post of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Ivashko became acting General Secretary.[9]On 29 August 1991 the activity of the CPSU was suspended throughout the country,[10]on 6 November Yeltsin banned the activities of the party in Russia[11]and Gorbachev resigned from the presidency on 25 December; the following day theSoviet of Republicsdissolved the Soviet Union.[12]

Ivashko retired in 1992 and died on 13 November 1994, at the age of 62, after an undetermined long illness.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^Richard L. Palmer, president of Cachet International, Inc., was theCIAstation chiefat theUnited States Embassy in Moscowfrom 1992 to 1994.[2][3]
  2. ^Sergei Tretyakov, SVR rezident in United States from 1995 to 2000, was a double agent for the FBI from 1997 to 2000.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^Dobbs, Michael;Coll, Steve(1 February 1993)."Ex-Communists are scrambling for quick cash".The Washington Post.Retrieved23 November2020.
  2. ^abPalmer, Richard L. (21 September 1999)."Statement of Richard L. Palmer, president of Cachet International, Inc. on the Infiltration of the Western Financial System by Elements of Russian Organized Crime before the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services".HouseCommittee on Banking and Financial Services.Archived fromthe originalon 29 July 2019.Retrieved7 December2020.
  3. ^Foer, Franklin(1 March 2019)."Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America: When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost".The Atlantic.Archived fromthe originalon 8 December 2020.Retrieved7 December2020.
  4. ^Belton 2020,p. 94.
  5. ^Leach, James A.,ed. (21 September 1999).Russian Money Laudering: United States Congressional Hearing (serial number 106-38).Diane Publishing. p. 316.ISBN9780756712556.Retrieved7 December2020.
  6. ^Wise, David(27 January 2008)."Spy vs. Spy: They had Robert Hanssen. We had Sergei Tretyakov".The Washington Post.Archived fromthe originalon 26 July 2008.Retrieved8 December2020.
  7. ^Earley 2008.
  8. ^Steigerwald, Bill (31 March 2008)."Comrade J by Pete Earley".Townhall.Retrieved8 December2020.
  9. ^Perrie, Maureen; Lieven, D. C. B.; Suny, Ronald Grigor (2 November 2006). "The Gorbachev Era".The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century.Cambridge University Press.pp. 344–349.ISBN978-0-521-81144-6.
  10. ^"Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 29 августа 1991 г. № 2371-I «О ситуации, возникшей в стране в связи с имевшим место государственным переворотом»"(PDF).
  11. ^"Decree of the President of the RSFSR of November 6, 1991 No. 169".Kremlin.ru.
  12. ^Perrie, Maureen; Lieven, D. C. B.; Suny, Ronald Grigor (2 November 2006). "The Gorbachev Era".The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century.Cambridge University Press. p. 349.ISBN978-0-521-81144-6.

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