17 Facts About Vladimir Dekanozov

Vladimir Georgievich Dekanozov was a Soviet senior state security operative and diplomat.

Dovydenas asserted that Vladimir Dekanozov's father was an ethnic Russian and that his mother was from a Jewish family assimilated to Baltic German culture.

Vladimir Dekanozov entered the Red Army in 1918, and he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1920.

Vladimir Dekanozov was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1937 to 1950.

Vladimir Dekanozov was transferred to the NKVD in November 1938, when Lavrentii Beria was appointed its head.

Vladimir Dekanozov was the deputy chief of GUGB and at the same time headed both its foreign-intelligence and counterintelligence departments from 1938 to 1939.

Vladimir Dekanozov was responsible for purges of the Red Army as well as for purging Nikolai Yezhov's supporters from the NKVD.

Vladimir Dekanozov arrived on the same day to organise the incorporation of Lithuania into the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Dekanozov installed himself in the Soviet embassy and imposed on Lithuania the Soviet party-state structure in which the traditional governmental forms were of only secondary importance.

Vladimir Dekanozov restructured the Lithuanian government, naming Justas Paleckis, a Lithuanian leftist who was not yet a member of the Communist Party, as Prime Minister.

Vladimir Dekanozov used the Lithuanian government and the Communist Party of Lithuania, as his instruments to carry out the will of the leadership of the Soviet All-Union Communist Party.

The Sovietisation of Lithuania started by Vladimir Dekanozov was continued by Nikolai Pozdniakov.

From November 1940 until June 1941 Vladimir Dekanozov, while remaining the deputy chief of NKID, served as the Soviet ambassador to Berlin.

Vladimir Dekanozov continued as the deputy chief of NKID and then of the Foreign Affairs Ministry until 1947.

Vladimir Dekanozov held other senior positions before being appointed the Interior Minister of the Georgian SSR in April 1953.

Vladimir Dekanozov, regarded as a member of the so-called "Beria gang", was arrested in June 1953 and sentenced to death on 23 December 1953.

Vladimir Dekanozov's case was reviewed both by the Soviet Union during the glasnost era and by the Russian Federation after the 1991 collapse of the USSR.