- Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Panteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko( _be. Пантэляймон Кандрацьевіч Панамарэнка; _ru. Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко);
9 August 1902 ndash18 January 1984 ) was a general in theRed Army before becoming a Soviet administrator inBelarus and thenKazakhstan . He was born inKrasnodar Krai ,Russia .From 1938 to 1947, Ponomarenko was the First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Belorussia , and from 1944 to 1948, also the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. DuringWorld War II , he led Communist partisan units within Nazi-occupied Belarus. He clashed with thePolish underground and gave orders for his troops to disarm them. This led to a number of deaths.Fact|date=June 2008Ponomarenko allegedly facilitated the repression of Belarusian intellectuals, the
Russification of Belarus andethnic cleansing in that part ofWest Belarus annexed by theSoviet Union in 1939. [ [http://www.zbsb.org/n/066.shtml Спадар Панамарэнка абражаў культуру і мову, фактычна падпісваў смяротны прысуд літаратурным дзеячам, абвінаваціўшы іх у “контррэвалюцыйнай нацыяналістычнай працы, ідэйна кіруемых заўсёды дзесяткам прафашысцкіх пісьменнікаў (у тым ліку Янкам Купалай і Якубам Коласам)...”] ]From 16 October 1952 until 6 March 1953, Ponomarenko was a member of the
Politburo of theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union . He was made First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR in 1954 before becoming the Soviet ambassador toPoland between 1955 and 1957. [Brown, Archie (1990) "Ponomarenko, Pantaleimon Kondrat'evich (1902-1984)" "The Soviet Union: A biographical dictionary" Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, ISBN 0-02-897071-3 ;] [Vronskaya, Jeanne and Chuguev, Vladimir (1988) "Ponomarenko, Panteleimon Kondrat'evich (1902-1984)" "A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917-1988" K.G. Saur, London, ISBN 0-86291-470-1 ;]Ponomarenko also taught diplomacy and assisted in the creation of the National Jazz Orchestra in
Minsk .Fact|date=June 2008References
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