Shepilov Dmitry Trofimovich Biography

The editor -in -chief of the newspaper Pravda in - GG. Shepilov was appointed editor on the propaganda department of the newspaper Pravda. From G. in the years, Shepilov is the editor -in -chief of the newspaper Pravda. He helped Khrushchev prepare a report on the XX Congress on the cult of personality and its consequences. The Foreign Minister in the year Khrushchev achieved the shift of Molotov from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, putting his front -line ally Shepilov in his place.

He believed that the Soviet Union should be made friends with Asian countries, which in Moscow had not previously paid attention. Stalin and Molotov only America and Western Europe were considered partners worthy of attention. ” Mlechin, L. In June, during negotiations in Egypt with President Naser in June, Shepilov, by the clan of his previous activity, not being an international professional, was impressed by a truly “pharaoh” reception, which the then president of Egypt Nasser, and, upon returning to Moscow, managed to convince Khrushchev of forcing the establishment of relations from relations Arab countries of the Middle East, in contrast to the normalization of relations with Israel.

It should be noted that during the Second World War, almost the entire political elite of the countries of the Middle East, one way or another collaborated with Hitler Germany, and the Nasser and his brothers then studied in the German senior military schools. He headed the Soviet delegation at the London Conference on the Suez Canal. He contributed to the normalization of Soviet-Japanese relations: in October of the city of the USSR and Japan exchanged ambassadors.

At the same time, he participated in the preparation of Khrushchev’s report “On the Cult of the Personality and its consequences”, however, the prepared version of the report was significantly changed. The fierce resistance tried to provide the Lenin course outlined by the XX Party Congress, a fractional anti -party group, which included Molotov, Kaganovich, Malenkov, Voroshilov, Bulganin, Pervukhin, Saburov and Shepilov joining them.

The XXII Congress of the CPSU exists another, less literary and entertainment explanation of the sources of wording using the word “joined”: a group that would consist of eight participants was embarrassed to call “a broken anti-party group”, since it turned out to be a clear majority, and this would be obvious even for readers of Pravda. In order to be called "fractions-scrapers", the members of the group should have been no more than seven; Shepilov was the eighth.

The assumption sounds more reasonable that, unlike the seven members of the “anti -party group” - members of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, Shepilov was defined as “joined”, because, as a candidate for members of the Presidium, he did not have the right to vote in voting. Shepilov was dismissed from all party and government posts. Thanks to this phrase, millions of Soviet citizens learned the name of the party functionary.

Shepilov’s own memoirs are polemically entitled “non -discharge”; They are sharply critical towards Khrushchev. Shepilov himself, according to the memoirs, considered the case as fabricated.

He was expelled from the party to the city of died on August 18, he was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.