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Pyotr Pospelov

Soviet politician, propagandist, and scientist (1898-1979) · Russia · On the map · Politicians · Died at 80

Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov was a high-ranked functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, propagandist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953), chief editor of Pravda newspaper, and director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism.

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1979Died22 April 19791973Order of Friendship of PeoplesAward1958Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1948Order of LeninAward1945Order of LeninAward1943State Stalin Prize, 1st degreeAward1898Born20 June 1898

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Order of Friendship of Peoples1973
Hero of Socialist Labour1958
Order of Lenin1958
Order of Lenin1948
Order of Lenin1945
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1943
Stalin Prize
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
Karl Marx Gold Medal
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

About this person

He was known as a staunch Stalinist who quickly became a supporter of Nikita Khrushchev after the latter's Secret Speech.

Country
Russia
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1898 to 1979 · aged 80

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