In Russia, on Friday, May 7, at the age of 101, the former secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1983-1990) died Egor Ligachev… In November, he celebrated his 100th birthday.
This was announced by the head of the department of information policy of the administration of the Tomsk region Alexei Sevostyanov, reports TASS… According to the Telegram channel Mash, shortly before the death of Ligachev ended up in intensive care with bilateral pneumonia.
His condition was assessed as extremely serious, doctors diagnosed the ex-secretary of the CPSU Central Committee with multiple autonomic disorders. Ligachev was connected to a ventilator.
Yegor Ligachev was a member of the CPSU Central Committee from 1976 to 1990 and a People’s Deputy of the USSR from 1989 to 1992. In 1985-1988, as secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, he was responsible for questions of ideology.
In fact, Ligachev was the second person in the party after Mikhail Gorbachev. He became one of the initiators and leaders of the anti-alcohol campaign in the USSR… “The task is not to teach people to drink culturally, but to teach them not to drink at all,” the politician said. After he admitted that the desire to quickly save the people from drunkenness was a delusion.
He is also famous for the phrase addressed to Boris Yeltsin – “Boris, you’re wrong”… She sounded in 1988 at a party conference, when he criticized the central apparatus of the CPSU.
In 1993-2013, Ligachev was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and deputy chairman – secretary of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties in 1995-2005.
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