Lazar Kaganovich
said
Every time they say that what's happening in the country is... Stalin's fault.
— Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica
Lazar Kaganovich
Soviet politician (1893–1991)
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Lived 1893–1991, aged 98
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One of Stalin's innermost circle, Kaganovich enforced the grain seizures that fueled Ukraine's 1932–33 famine and survived decades past the system he helped build — dying in 1991, five months before the Soviet Union itself collapsed.
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Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine in 1893, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker before joining the Bolsheviks in 1911. He rose through party ranks after the 1917 Revolution, consolidating Soviet rule across Belarus, Russia, and Turkestan. Stalin placed him in charge of a key organizational department in 1922, using him to tighten control over the party apparatus. By 1930 Kaganovich had become a full Politburo member and Stalin's deputy party secretary; two years later, as First Secretary in Ukraine, he helped enforce grain quotas that contributed directly to the Holodomor famine. Through the 1930…
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Lazar Kaganovich
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First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, it gets to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx.
— Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica
Lazar Kaganovich
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Iosif Vissarionovich was a really cautious man. Really cautious. A man who could see far.
— Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica
Lazar Kaganovich
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Without Stalin's politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.
— Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica
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