38 Facts About Nikita Salogor

Nikita Salogor finally returned to Soviet Moldavia in March 1944, and joined the provisional government formed in Soroca.

Nikita Salogor managed responses to the Moldavian famine, and set up the Moldavian State University.

Nikita Salogor lost his PCM positions shortly after, and sent to work as an agricultural manager in Krasnodar Krai.

Nikita Salogor was allowed to return in 1950, when Moldavian Premier Gherasim Rudi assigned him minor positions in his cabinet.

Nikita Salogor was only included on the Central Committee in the 1970s, by which time he was already retired and ailing.

Nikita Salogor was born on 15 August 1901, though some of his official biographies had 1902.

Between 1921 and 1924, Nikita Salogor was active in the Red Army's ranks.

Nikita Salogor was tasked with agricultural projects in Ribnita and Ocna Rosie Districts, before being integrated into the political establishment of the Moldavian ASSR.

Nikita Salogor moved there in 1930, as part of a wave of new arrivals which were meant to infuse the local political structures with stricter Stalinism.

Nikita Salogor was successively president of a raion-level union, a sovkhoz manager, and chairman of the Executive Committee of integrating uezd.

Nikita Salogor was by then a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which remained his only affiliation until 1940.

In 1937, Nikita Salogor graduated from the Ukrainian Academy for People's Commissars in the Food Industry and from Moscow's Stalin Academy.

Nikita Salogor moved into the new republic, and became Junior Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia, serving under Piotr Borodin, from August or October 1940.

Nikita Salogor was additionally head of the Orhei County Soviet.

Nikita Salogor promised to exercise "rigorous control" and ensure the fulfillment of quotas.

In July 1941, when Nikita Salogor had joined the PCM Politburo, Nazi Germany began its attack on the Soviet Union; in Bessarabia, this involved Romanian troops, who managed to annex the region.

Nikita Salogor was then tasked with communicating with Soviet partisans in Bessarabia, effectively as their leader.

In March 1942, the PCM's Central Committee investigated Nikita Salogor's social origins, but he was able to persuade his colleagues, Borodin included, that he was a reliable cadre.

In that context, Nikita Salogor remained Junior Secretary to 1946, but supplanted Borodin to become First Secretary of the PCM, on 7 September 1942.

Nikita Salogor managed to topple his rival by reporting on Borodin's insubordination and violent tactics.

Nikita Salogor was personally involved in selecting PCM cadres for missions behind enemy lines.

Fiodor Brovco took charge of a Moldavian Supreme Soviet, while Nikita Salogor continued to exercise PCM leadership as "Second Secretary".

Nikita Salogor repeated that point in letters he sent to General Ivan Susaykov of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, detailing the Red Army's systematic looting in Bessarabia.

Between those dates, at a PCM Plenary of January 1945, Nikita Salogor still complained that Moldavian Russians cultivated anti-Romanianism and hostility toward Moldovans, whom they described as "shifty" and "fascist".

In March 1946, Stalin recalled Markeyev, whom Nikita Salogor had denounced as a persecutor of the local populace.

Nikita Salogor described resisters as "traitors" and kulaks, recounting that one Romanian man openly bragged about educating his children to be "fascists".

Nikita Salogor made special note of saboteurs working to disrupt the Moldavian Railways.

When members of a student group in Vadul lui Voda came to be labeled as fascists, and objected to the charges, Nikita Salogor took their reply as proof that they were a solid organization of anti-communists.

Nikita Salogor personally put the proposal into a collective report, and submitted it for review by Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.

Nikita Salogor's direct contribution was an introductory letter, which argued for the stately unity of "Moldovans" and the economic importance of the Budjak, while other parts of the document repeated proposals first made by PCM-affiliated academics in 1943.

Nikita Salogor was forcefully retired to Moscow, to undergo ideological training.

In 1948, Nikita Salogor was overseeing vegetable production in Krasnodar Krai, being finally allowed back into the Moldavian SSR in 1950.

Nikita Salogor asked Moldavian Premier Gherasim Rudi to assign him a government portfolio, but bluntly refused to be appointed as the Junior Minister of Forestry, since this would have meant him traveling out of the country; he only accepted temporary appointment as Junior Minister for Meat and Dairy, and was promised future appointment as Minister of Local Industry.

From January 1947, Nikita Salogor had been involved in attempts to undermine Coval by exposing his family links to pro-Romanian groups in Bessarabia.

Nikita Salogor directed similar attacks against Rudi at the PCM Plenary of July 1950, but this only resulted in his own "unhealthy" social origins being brought up for discussion.

Nikita Salogor was demoted to manager of the Moldavian Vegetables' Trust, a position which he would eventually lose on 1 July 1957.

Nikita Salogor served in other "unimportant offices" to 1959, when he collected his pension, but was re-inducted into the PCM Central Committee in 1971, and reconfirmed in 1976.

Nikita Salogor lived the rest of his life in the Moldavian SSR, dying in Chisinau, "after long and great suffering", on 24 June 1982.