Shcherbakov Alexander Sergeyevich - a famous party leader of the Soviet era, Colonel General, a man of great authority and the most executive assistant to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
Having an unlimited faith in the greatness of his leader, Shcherbakov was ready to break into a cake, following any of his instructions. And Stalin easily and without delay signed materials if they were agreed or endorsed by him.
Alexander Shcherbakov: biography. Childhood and youth
Shcherbakov - a native of Ruza (Moscow province). He was born on October 10, 1901 in a family of ordinary workers, who a few years after his birth moved to Rybinsk. Education Alexander got there.
He started working early: from the age of 11 he was engaged in posting the press, a year later he went to the printing house as an apprentice, and later got a job on the railway as an employee. He joined the Red Guard when he was 16 years old, and a year later he made an important decision for himself - he joined the Communist Party.
Since that time, in just two decades, Alexander, as it turned out, was an absolutely dizzying figure for the Stalinist regime and made a dizzying career. The leader Shcherbakov came into view, managing cultural and educational work in the apparatus of the Central Committee. He pretty soon gained confidence in Stalin, although everyone knows how cautious the secretary general was, especially in relation to new people.
Incredible career takeoff
In 1934, while working in the Central Committee, Alexander Shcherbakov was simultaneously appointed first secretary of the Writers' Union, formally headed by Maxim Gorky. But it was Alexander Sergeyevich who made decisions on issues of a political, administrative, and economic nature.
Seeing that such a loyal assistant managed to restore order in the Writers' Union, Stalin sent him to Leningrad in 1936 as the second secretary of the party’s regional committee. After 2 years, Shcherbakov remains in the same position, but already in the East Siberian regional committee of the CPSU (b). It was there that he showed himself an ardent supporter of Stalin’s policies and carried out a global purge, arresting almost all the heads and deputies of regional departments, secretaries of regional committees, heads of economic organizations, and directors of enterprises. According to Shcherbakov, these individuals did not inspire confidence: the party leadership was in enemy hands. It was in this way - on someone else's blood - that careers were being made at that time, a vivid example was Alexander Shcherbakov.
Moscow. New appointments
Further, having worked for a short time in the Donetsk Regional Party Committee, in 1938 Shcherbakov moved to Moscow, where he was appointed first secretary of the MK and MGK VKP (b). Stalin pondered this appointment for a long time and made a positive decision, with only one nuance: he appointed Alexander Sergeevich to control as the second secretary of Muscovite Popov. Shcherbakov understood the true role of the commissioner-supervisor who was with him and constantly clashed with him.
In 1941, a new appointment - Secretary of the Central Committee and candidate for membership in the Politburo. At the same time, Shcherbakov took a leading position in the Soviet Information Bureau. When the enemy was standing at the gates of the capital (in the fall of 1941), Alexander Sergeevich, unlike many, did not succumb to panic and was not at a loss. He spoke on the air, warmly urging residents to defend their city to the last breath. And then, having removed the first secretaries of A. Korostylev and I. Dashko from their posts, he expelled them from the party. Other employees of the city committee also fell under the tribunal, who in a panic left secret documents with important information at the Kursk station, as well as a group of directors of metropolitan plants who were trying to illegally truck off the capital with stolen property.
Almost the owner of the capital
Enormous power was concentrated in the hands of Shcherbakov, Secretary of the Central Committee, practically the master of the capital of Russian cities, the head of the Main Political Administration of the Red Army, the head of the Soviet Information Bureau. But never, under any circumstances, did he forget that there was a stronger power over him.
Trying to please Stalin in every possible way, in order to increase his own authority, Shcherbakov, bypassing the General Staff (through his channels), sought to obtain important operational information and report it first. At the same time, Alexander Sergeyevich, being a cabinet worker, never went to the front.
