Аннотация: MMMDCXVI. Nicholas Voznesensky and John Paul II. A historical essay. - February 12, 2025.
Nicholas Voznesensky and John Paul II. A historical essay.
Nikolai Voznesensky (1903-1950) is a historical figure; biographical materials in encyclopedias are dedicated to him.
Upon opening the most popular encyclopedia, a reader will almost certainly not find any mention of the fact that Nikolai Voznesensky - and some of his close relatives - were prominent figures in the "Slavic movement."
Only in the materials of the "second line" one can find, for example, such references: "... The Slavic Committee of the USSR, established in March 1947. (...) It succeeded the one established in Moscow on October 5, 1941 the All-Slavic Committee. (...) The presidium of the committee included well-known figures: (...) A.E. Korneychuk, (...) N.A. Voznesensky (Chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee ...), ...." "The policy of the post-Stalin leadership was, in fact, anti-Slavic" (Alexey Baliev. The Slavic Committee of the USSR and the Slavic Union Confederate State. https://lsvsx.livejournal.com/144284.html) [unofficial translation]
After May 9, 1945, the economy of the USSR was doing well, the danger of military defeat and of transformation of the state had passed, so it was a possibility to get rid of overly talented and effective people. The idea of a "Slavic World" turned out to be not very necessary.
So in 1950, Nikolai Voznesensky was shot on a fictitious charge ("Historians named among the possible reasons for the repression against the 'Leningraders' their behind-the-scenes confrontation with the group of Malenkov and Beria; the suppression of the "Russian party" within the CPSU(b), as well as a real corruption among the Leningrad leadership. Since the main arrays of documents on this "case" are still unavailable for study, as they are in closed storage in various archives, party and departmental, a full-fledged scientific study of the causes and course of the "Leningrad case" has not yet been conducted"). [unofficial translation]
On March 7, 1949, Nikolai Voznesensky was removed from the post of Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee.
In the same year, 1949, Konstantin Rokossovsky was sent to Poland to serve as Minister of National Defense of Poland.
It can be assumed that the citizens of Poland did not know about the events that took place in the USSR. But the probability of such situation (of insufficient information to Polish citizens) is unlikely.
Konstantin Rokossovsky was obviously not a Polish citizen until 1949. Perhaps the rules of the political "black box", which functioned according to dark laws that few people were able to understood, did not suit all Polish citizens (although Konstantin Rokossovsky did not have the most direct relation to these "laws"). In 1956, Konstantin Rokossovsky left Poland for the USSR and became Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR.
In 1957-1960, Wojciech Jaruzelski was the commander of the 12th Mechanized Division. Judging by his biography, Wojciech Jaruzelski was a citizen of the Polish pre-war state and, most likely, he did not receive the Soviet citizenship.
From April 1968 to November 1983, Wojciech Jaruzelski was the Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of Poland. Since February 11, 1981 - Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the Polish People's Republic.
1962 - 1973 - gradual, "unnoticeable" liquidation of the All-Slavic Committee, established in the USSR in 1941. (After 1958, the Committee's activities were limited to the reception of foreign tourists).
In 1977, Zbigniew Brzezinski became National Security Advisor in the administration of U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła) became Pope (head of the Catholic Church) on October 16, 1978.
In 1990, Wojciech Jaruzelski agreed to hold multiparty presidential elections in the country (and earlier - to the Polish Sejm) and, following their results, peacefully transferred power to elected President Lech Wałęsa. (In the 1990 presidential election, incumbent President Wojciech Jaruzelski did not stand as a candidate.)
After his resignation, Polish citizen Wojciech Jaruzelski did not flee, did not emigrate, did not apply for political asylum. He continued to live in Poland until his death. He died of natural causes at the age of 90 in Warsaw.
February 12, 2025, 10:29
Translation from Russian into English: February 12, 2025 11:48
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