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5 unusual facts about Politburo


Jugendweihe

The decision to convert the Jugendweihe into a socialist ceremony was taken in Moscow in May 1953 when the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union passed a resolution on "Measures for the Recovery of the Political Situation in the GDR", which suggested a socialist alternative to Christian Confirmation.

Politics of the Soviet Union

The primary CPSU bodies were the Politburo, the highest decision-making organ; the Secretariat, the controller of party bureaucracy; and the Central Committee, the party's policy forum.

Tikhon of Moscow

Textual analysis of these messages shows considerable similarity with a number of documents exchanged in the Politburo on the "Tikhon's Affair".

World in Conflict: Soviet Assault

The game is set in an alternate 1989 in which the Politburo of the Soviet Union elects to take military action to sustain itself, rather than collapse.

ZIL-117

One of the reasons to design the ZIL-117 was a need of a government car of an intermediate rank between ZIL-114 (reserved for highest state and party authorities) and GAZ-13 Chaika, appropriate for example for Politburo member candidates, and also as supporting cars in highest officials' convoys.


10th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Another example being Tô Huy Rứa of the 10th Politburo, he was ranked lowest because he received the lowest approval vote of the 10th Central Committee when he standing for election for a seat in the Politburo.

2013 Southern Weekly incident

Liu Yunshan, Member of the 18th CPC Politburo Standing Committee and First Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The first Plenum of the new CPSU Central Committee was held July 13–14, and with the exception of Gorbachev, a completely new Politburo was elected.

6th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Secretariat and the Politburo were suspended and replaced by a Presidium of the 7th Plenary Session, with Mao Zedong as chairman and Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Ren Bishi and Zhou Enlai as members.

Abdul Qadir Dagarwal

As part of the changes in the leadership of the country, he resigned from the Politburo in November 1985, a year later was appointed Ambassador to Warsaw, Poland by President Mohammad Najibullah.

Buddhadeb

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (born 1944), Indian politician and a member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India

Central Financial Work Commission

Its operations were supervised by Executive Deputy Secretary Yan Haiwang, and it regularly reported directly to its head, CFCW Secretary Wen Jiabao, who concurrently served as a member of the Politburo and as vice-premier in charge of work on finance.

Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam

Another example being Tô Huy Rứa of the 10th Politburo, he was ranked lowest because he received the lowest approval vote of the 10th Central Committee when he standing for election for a seat in the Politburo.

For instance, the two first officeholders Nguyễn Văn Tố and Bùi Bằng Đoàn were not even members of the Communist Party, while Trường Chinh, the fourth chairman, was ranked second in the Politburo hierarchy.

Choe Ryong-hae

In April 2012, he received important promotions to Vice Marshal, member of the Politburo Presidium of the WPK Central Committee, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, director of the KPA General Political Bureau and member of the National Defence Commission, largely filling the post left unoccupied by Jo Myong-rok's death and working as power broker for Kim Jong-un.

Collective leadership

On the national level, the heart of the collective leadership was officially the Central Committee of the Communist Party, but in practice, was the Politburo.

Its main task was to distribute powers and functions among the Politburo, the Central Committee, and the Council of Ministers to hinder any attempts to create a one-man dominance over the Soviet political system by a Soviet leader, such as that seen under Joseph Stalin's rule.

Collective leadership is characterised by limiting the powers of the General Secretary and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers as related to other offices by enhancing the powers of collective bodies, such as the Politburo.

Dinh The Huynh

He's a member of the 11th Politburo, in which he is ranked 13th.

Dumaagiin Sodnom

On December 12, 1984 Sodnom was appointed chairman of the Council of Ministers, or prime minister, and was elected a member of the MPRP Politburo following the ouster of Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal from the chairmanship of the Presidium of the People's Great Hural and the ascension of Sodnom's political ally Jambyn Batmönh to the position.

Fyodor Kulakov

In 1971 he was elected to the Political Bureau (Politburo).

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, officially General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China, a standing member of the Politburo and head of the Secretariat.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Another example being Tô Huy Rứa of the 10th Politburo, he was ranked at the bottom because he received the lowest number of approval votes.

Guru Radha Kishan

M Farooqui, Sudhakar Reddy MP, Abani Roy, Politburo Member CPM and MP S. Ramachandran Pillai, National Secretary CPI and MP J Chittranjan, President of Delhi State Congress and Member of Congress National Working Committee Deep Chand Bandhu, Film actor-wrestler and MP Dara Singh, Journalist Prabhash Joshi and E Srinivasan, Secretary Government of India were also present to give the final salute to this Swatantrata Sangram Sainik.

Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster

Maryin sent the message further up the chain of command, to Frolyshev, who then called Vladimir Dolgikh, who called Gorbachev and other members of the Politburo.

J. Arch Getty

"Stalin as Prime Minister: Power and the Politburo," in Sarah Davies and James Harris, Stalin: A New History, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 83-107.

Jiang Yanyong

In February 2004, Jiang wrote an open letter to the Premier Wen Jiabao, several deputy premiers, the Politburo and many other members of the Chinese government.

Kim Yong-chun

In December 2011, after the leader's death, he was ranked 5th among members of the Kim Jong-il funeral committee, immediately after Kim Jong-un and the Politburo Presidium members (Kim Yong-nam, Choe Yong-rim and Ri Yong-ho), signalling his powerful position in the new leadership.

Le Thanh Hai

He is a member of the 11th Politburo, in which he is ranked 6th.

Maxim of Bulgaria

In 1960 he was elected Metropolitan of Lovech on October 30, 1960, and during this time, despite the atmosphere of persecution under Todor Zhivkov, Maxim was able to win enough favour with the Politburo to be a certainty for election as Patriarch on July 4, 1971, after Patriarch Cyril died.

Mohammad Aslam Watanjar

He also headed the official Afghan delegation to Baikonur, in his position of communications minister and member of its ruling Politburo.

National Security Commission of the Communist Party of China

The Commission is headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (also President) with Politburo Standing Committee members Li Keqiang (also Premier) and Zhang Dejiang (also Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee) as deputies.

Ngo Van Du

He's a member of the 11th Politburo, in which he is ranked 12th.

Nguyen Xuan Phuc

He's a member of the 11th Politburo, in which he is ranked 14th, making him one of the lowest ranked member.

Nikolay Krestinsky

After Vladimir Lenin's victory at the X Party Congress in March 1921, Krestinsky lost his Politburo, Orgburo and Secretariat posts and became Soviet ambassador to Germany.

Novocherkassk massacre

During a politburo scene in The Devil's Alternative by author Frederick Forsyth, the KGB chief, asked if he could suppress riots during famine, responds that the KGB could suppress ten, even twenty Novocherkassk's; but not fifty - intentionally using the example to highlight how serious the difficulties would be that the Soviet Union finds itself in the novel.

Pak To-chun

He was also elected to the National Defence Commission in April 2011 and promoted to Politburo full member in April 2012, largely replacing Jon Pyong-ho as North Korea's military industry manager.

Pham Quang Nghi

He's a member of the 11th Politburo, in which he is ranked 9th.

Sanahin

Anastas Mikoyan was the politician with the longest career of any member of the Soviet Politburo.

Shahnawaz Tanai

Tanai was apparently also supported by those important Khalqis who remained in the Politburo, Assadullah Sarwary and Mohammad Gulabzoi, respectively their country's envoys to Aden and Moscow, were said to have been intimately connected with the coup and with Gral Tanai.

Tawengwa

Their aunt Edna Madzongwe (the late Mabel Tawengwa's young sister) is the current President of Senate and a member of the Politburo (2013).

Taysir Khalid

Taysir Khalid (Tayseer Khaled) is a member and Politburo member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), who was a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization until 1993, when he resigned in protest against the Oslo Accords.

Timeline of the Great Purge

;May 23: Politburo decree exiling from Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev all persons ever excluded from the Communist Party for the relations with opposition and all family members of persons imprisoned for more than five years.

Tô Huy Rứa

During the 10th Politburo, Tô held the posts of Chairman of the Commission for Popularisation and Education of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Chairman of the Theoretical Council.

He's a member of the 11th Politburo, in which he is ranked 7th.

Tong Thi Phong

She is a member of the 11th Politburo, in which she is ranked 11th.

Tuanpai

Hu Qili, member of the Politburo Standing Committee (demoted 1989)

Xu Ming

Xu had close relationships with several high-ranking government officials and their families, especially the former Politburo member Bo Xilai.


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