Angaretis Zigmas Ionovich
Definition: Lithuanian revolutionary, one of the first leaders of the Communist Party of Lithuania.
Years of life: 1882-1940
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Genus. in 1882 in the village of Obelupiai, Vilkaviskis district. He studied at the Warsaw Veterinary Institute, from where he was expelled in 1904 for participating in an anti-war demonstration. Participated in the Revolution of 1905–1907. In 1906 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), joining its left wing. In 1907, at the 7th Congress of the SDKPiL, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the SDKPiL. During the years of the Stolypin reaction he opposed the liquidators.In 1908-1909 - editor of the newspaper Darbininku Zhodis (Workers' Word). In 1909 he was arrested and sentenced to 4 years of hard labor; he served in Pskov prison. In 1915 he was exiled to the Yenisei province, where he established connections with the Bolshevik organization in Minusinsk. Here he wrote a number of articles in Lithuanian Social Democratic newspapers published outside the Russian Empire, in which he signed the pseudonym Angaretis. These articles promoted Lenin's views on issues of war and the creation of a new International.
From 1917 he lived in Petrograd, edited the newspaper Tiesa (Pravda, published on March 30, 1917). He held the post of secretary of the Lithuanian district committee (Lithuanian sections) of the Petrograd organization of the RSDLP (b), a member of the Petrograd city committee of the Bolsheviks, a member of the Central Bureau of the Lithuanian section under the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b).
During the days of the October Revolution, on instructions from the party, he was present at meetings of the Menshevik-SR Petrograd Duma and informed the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) about its counter-revolutionary activities; took part in the armed uprising in Petrograd (participated in the suppression of the armed struggle of the cadets). From December 1917, Deputy Commissioner for Lithuanian Affairs at the People's Commissariat of Nationalities. During the negotiations on the conclusion of the Brest-Litovsk Peace, he joined the “left communists”.
From November 1918, working underground in Vilnius, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania (KPL). At the end of 1918 - beginning of 1919 he served as People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the first Soviet government of Lithuania. After the suppression of Soviet power in Lithuania, he went to Daugavpils, where he worked as a special representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belarus and the Defense Council of the Republic, maintaining contact with the occupied areas. From 1920 he was secretary of the Foreign Bureau of the CPL, and from 1923 a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPL.
From 1921 he represented the CPL in the Executive Committee of the Comintern. A delegate to the 3rd–7th congresses of the Comintern, at the 5th–7th congresses he was elected a member of the International Control Commission (its secretary in 1926–1935). Delegate to the 7th (April) All-Russian Conference, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th-17th Congresses of the RCP(b) / CPSU(b). From 1918 to 1932 he was editor of the printed organ of the Communist Party of Poland, the magazine Kommunistas (Communist) and other publications.
He died in 1940 in an NKVD prison, where he was imprisoned on charges of counter-revolutionary activities.
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Fund 017 (К-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Дектер Яков Иванович
67. Information on archival and investigative case No. 975302 on the former head of the 3rd department of the UNKVD MO Postel A.O., compiled by the assistant military prosecutor of the Moscow Military District on 07/07/1956.
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Angaretis Zigmas Ionovich,
Ankudinov,
Apin Ivan Andreevich,
Baburov,
Baklanov,
Balamutenko,
Burashnikov,
Vershinin,
Wolfson,
Voroshilov Kliment Efremovich,
Gorgons,
Grzhibovsky Ivan Karlovich,
Dekter Yakov Ivanovich,
Dimitrov Georgy Mikhailovich,
Yezhov Nikolay Ivanovich,
Eliseev,
Efimov,
fences,
Zaitsev,
Zakovsky Leonid Mikhailovich,
Ziskind,
Izosimov,
Kaverznev Mikhail Kirillovich,
Kaganovich Lazar Moiseevich,
Kasaev,
Kiselev,
Krostashevsky,
Kuzovlev,
Larin,
Likhachev Ivan Alekseevich,
Maslov,
Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich,
Mochalov,
Nasedkin,
Orekhanov,
Petrovsky,
Polyakov,
Postel Arkady (Aron) Osipovich,
Rakitin,
Remizov,
Rudzutak Yan Ernestovich,
Sadovsky Prov Mikhailovich (junior),
Soloveitchik,
Sorokin,
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich,
Tretyakov,
Harlakevich,
Chebanov,
Shershevsky Nikolai (Karp) Sergeevich (Rafailovich),
Schneider,
Yakubovich G.M.
1956
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