Iron Shurik fiasco

This Soviet party leader had the unique ability to unite people around him. For many, this man will remain "Iron Shurik." Such a nickname he received in the period of rapid growth of his career.

We are talking about Alexander Nikolaevich Shelepin - a man who had the most direct relation to the overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev in the autumn of 1964.

It was Shelepin who was born in 1918 in Voronezh was considered the most viable candidate for the post of head of the country after Khrushchev had retired by the decision of the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU. People close to the authorities, with confidence said that a similar fate awaits Leonid Brezhnev, who at that time replaced Khrushchev. But they were wrong.

Both in the Soviet Union and abroad they saw the head of state Alexander Shelepin. But he lost.

The historian Leonid Mlechin in his documentary film will try to answer two questions that have been bothering him for many years: why Shelepin suffered a fiasco in the struggle for power (if he directly participated in the struggle), and what would happen to the country if he won victory?

Comments

[Major48]

Well, what can the pseudo-historian who in the publications of Stolypin called the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia tell us sensibly. This will be the next portion of anti-Soviet delirium. Mlechin is an anti-Soviet counterfeiter, like Svanidze, and therefore uninteresting.

[Phil77]

So I ask myself a question, and when did these * historians * become historians ?! If only on TV?

[kind]

Shelepin did his job well! The KGB gained great strength under him. Our "good partners" still have the abbreviation KGB as a laxative.

[Phil77]

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Shelepin did his job well! The KGB gained great strength under him. Our "good partners" still have the abbreviation KGB as a laxative.

By the way, notice that the better any of our government figures does their job, the more negatively they feel about him in the West. Well, about * our *, conditionally, of course, * historians *, you don’t have to say.

[Mark]

On YouTube there is a two-hour interview with Shelepin, about a year and a half before his death. He very objectively and professionally describes all the events, including the overthrow of Khrushchev. He had no desire to become general, he was too decent for this role.

[Reklastik]

... he was too decent for this role.

- He himself admitted this?

[Mark]

No, this is my opinion.
In general, I did not notice that the leaders of the KGB (with the exception of Andropov) had ambitions to become general secretaries.

[Reklastik]

I did not notice that the leaders of the KGB (with the exception of Andropov) had ambitions to become general secretaries.

- you have extensive material and a lot of time - continue to observe)))

[Catfish]

Perhaps there was simply no opportunity, or did they really assess the situation? In general, with the then "party games" in the Central Committee, it is somehow difficult to believe in someone's decency. And the KGB - he perfectly showed what he is worth during the well-known events in Moscow. I mean the notorious GKChP. The State Security Committee - to screw up such a country!

[polar fox]

after a short announcement, the historian Mlechin, then you can not read.