Vladimir Dekanozov
Vladimir Dekanozov | |
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GUGB Deputy Chief of the Soviet NKID Chief of the Georgian NKVD | |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Awards | Order of Lenin |
Other work | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Vladimir Georgievich Dekanozov (Russian: Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Декано́зов; born Ivan Vasilyevich Protopopov; June 1898 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet senior state security operative and diplomat.
According to the sentence issued by Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union he was an associate of the "Lavrentiy Beria gang" and was sentenced to death in 1953. The sentence was carried out shortly after.
Biography
Early life
According to his official biography, Vladimir Dekanozov was born in
Some historians have concluded that he assumed the name "Dekanozov" and a Georgian ethnic identity in order to hide his true origin, an action that was quite common among the
Dekanozov's official biography states that he studied in the medical schools of
He was transferred to the
In May 1939 he was appointed deputy chief of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID). His sphere of responsibility before 1941 included Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Xinjiang, as well as the consulates, cadres, and finances of NKID.
Second World War
Incorporation of Lithuania into the USSR
Soviet military forces crossed the
Aided by specialists in Soviet administration and by Soviet security organs sent in from Moscow, Dekanozov worked through the
On 6 July Dekanozov's government announced that on 14 July there would be elections for a new parliament, a so-called People's Seimas. The Lithuanian Communist Party announced the formation of the Union of the Toiling People of Lithuania, which offered a slate of candidates, including some ten non-members of the Communist Party, with as many people as there were seats in the new parliament up for election. On 11 and 12 July, the Soviet authorities reduced the possible points of opposition by arresting leading figures of the old régime and deporting some of them to the interior of the Soviet Union, although Lithuania was still formally an independent state.
Dekanozov used the Lithuanian government and the Communist Party of Lithuania, as his instruments to carry out the will of the
Lithuania became a part of the Stalinist Soviet party-state, administered within the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) structure, long before it was formally incorporated into the governmental structure of the Soviet Union. By the time of the formalization of the new Soviet state structure in Lithuania, Dekanozov had long since left Lithuania. In July 1940 he had returned to Moscow, his job completed, when the People's Seimas voted to ask for membership in the
Work in Berlin
From November 1940 until June 1941 Dekanozov, while remaining the deputy chief of NKID, also served as the Soviet ambassador to Berlin. In September 1943, he made a mysterious visit to Stockholm that German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop interpreted as a sign of Soviet interest in making a separate peace with Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, however, refused von Ribbentrop's plea that he be allowed to dispatch an envoy to Sweden.
After the Second World War
Dekanozov continued as the deputy chief of NKID and then of the Foreign Affairs Ministry until 1947. He held other senior positions before being appointed the Interior Minister of the Georgian SSR (after Beria became the Interior Minister of the USSR in March 1953) in April 1953. A close associate of Beria, he was removed from state positions almost immediately after the removal (June–July 1953) of Beria.
Dekanozov, regarded as a member of the so-called "Beria gang", was arrested in June 1953 and sentenced to death on 23 December 1953. The sentence was carried out the same day.
His case was reviewed both by the Soviet Union during the glasnost era and by the
See also
- Soviet–German relations before 1941
References
- ^ Marples, Davir R.; Hurska, Alla (2022). Joseph Stalin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works (Significant Figures in World History). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 41.
- ^ Merab Vachnadze, Vakhtang Guruli, Mikheil Bakhtadze, History of Georgia; Artanuji 2004, page 112.
- ^ Georgian Genealogy Research
- ^ http://memo.ru/history/nkvd/kto/biogr/gb133.htm NKVD Files Archive
- ^ Игорь Бунич. Лабиринты безумия, стр. 49
- ^ a b c Dekanozov Vladimir Georgievich, article on hrono.ru
- ^ Lithuania 1940: revolution from above by Alfred Erich Senn; Amsterdam 2007, page 270
- ^ Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar By Simon Sebag Montefiore; Weidenfeld & Nieolson 2003
- ^ Barros, James (2009). Double Deception: Stalin, Hitler, and the Invasion of Russia (1 ed.). Northern Illinois University Press. pp. 48–49.
- ^ Kotkin, Stephen (2017). Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941. Penguin Random House.
Even Molotov did not know him well, thinking him an Armenian who pretended to be a Georgian. He seems to have been of mixed Russian (father) and German Jewish (mother) heritage
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ISBN 9789042022256. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
General Vincas Vitkauskas, on June 16 named Lithuanian Minister of Defense, called on the army not to resist, and government officials urged the people to go about their normal daily business.
- ^ (Dead link) Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Valdininkijos šalinimas iš okupuotos Lietuvos administracijos ir jos keitimas okupantų talkininkais 1940 m. birželio–gruodžio mėn.
- ^ "Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации". svr.gov.ru. Retrieved 7 January 2022.