Profitkov Victor Biography

His stay at the head of the Communist Party was a record short - only 13 months. Viktor Profitkov in the year became an assistant to Chernenko and worked in this position until the death of his cartridge. About why Chernenko was chosen on the Higher post, despite the poor health, how the headquarters of the Central Committee was created - the general department, how the all -powerful head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Nikolai Shchelokov lost his post, how they were looking for Gorbachev to make him the secretary of the Central Committee, and what happened after the explosion of the television in the apartment of the director Vladimir Naumov and actress Belokhvostikova told in the interview Kremlimhill.

Victor Profitkov. How did he accept his purpose? His wife Anna Dmitrievna told me about this. When Chernenko came home, she asked: “Kostya, what have you done? Why did you agree? Chernenko sat in a chair in the hallway and said: “You know, Anya, we are used to what we need. They told me - it is necessary, and I realized what it was necessary. " Why did he understand what to do?

Not because no one wanted to take such responsibility. But because everyone was already elderly. By the way, then no one thought about the proposal to elect Mikhail Gorbachev then. Everyone understood that Chernenko had all the threads of power. And Anna Dmitrievna cried: "Well, what are you, Kostya, did." After all, the colleagues who chose him could not see this, and Konstantin Ustinovich himself, for that matter?

After all, he was a shallow man. " And yet, how did it happen that Chernenko ended up at the highest state post? He was a wise man, but very ambitious. He set himself above many, because he began his career with Alexandra Kollontai. Even Brezhnev did not count for the leader. I do not take this statement seriously. And such an over-waring and inimitable attitude of such authorities as Alexander-agents most outraged me all these years after the death of Chernenko.

I think that the time of the reign of Andropov is a small phenomenon in the party. He was considered some incomprehensible Secretary General, special, with subtext. Almost liberal camouflaged under the KGB. Gradually, he began to create a structure, without the intervention of which not a single question passed. All operational, promising work was concentrated in one place.

Departments, units and sector of the Central Committee had an industry direction. On the same principle, the government was built - there were specialized ministries. At the same time, the departments did not have independence in resolving many issues. Questions for the Politburo and the Secretariat nominated the industry departments of the Central Committee along with relevant departments.

We needed a coordinator who would determine: how to report, how to prepare, what terms to give, how to control the implementation. This is what the general department was engaged in. By the way, the book of Chernenko was called: "Issues of the work of the party and state apparatus." We, his employees, all together participated in the preparation of this work. He was proud of her.

Today it is difficult to find the book: in the year, the Directive of the Ministry of Culture with the Grif “for official use” ordered to remove the works of Andropov, Brezhnev, Kunaev, Masherov, Mazurov, Shcherbitsky, Chernenko, etc., please tell us more details.

Chernenko said: “We must insert a wick to the Gosplan center. We should have such a computing center in the Central Committee that is not nowhere. ” And he created it. A special building was built where domestic Minsk cars stood. Sometimes Chernenko checked technical innovations - he would raise the phone: “Marya Vasilievna, I have a document from the year related to our affairs with Japan, please give it.” Three to four minutes passed, and a copy of the document was at the head on the table-the papers were delivered with a pneumatic post.

It was an extensive material, which reflected the main areas of the Central Committee: the nature of the issues considered, business trips to places and abroad, measures taken by the apparatus of the Central Committee, Council of Ministers and departments on economics, the implementation of the work plans of the Politburo and the Secretariat, etc. The report has always been spent on places.

I remember on December 31 I came home without fifteen 12 - I waited until Feldsvyaz, documents will not be scattered throughout the year. Following the example of the Central Committee, the regional committees, the regional committees and the Central Committee of the Communist Parties of the Union republics introduced the same form of intra -party information.

Konstantin Ustinovich always had the Lenin thesis not only by hearing, but also in the leadership. Vladimir Ilyich still in the year, when the situation in the country was complex, critical, said: “Without the apparatus, we will die. But the bad device will destroy us for sure. ” Here with this Lenin thesis Chernenko worked. I know this because before working with documents, before organizational work, he spent many years in party positions related to propaganda and agitation.

He was the head of the ideological department in the three regional committees of the party: in the GG. Castro in the USSR. Brezhnev, and deputy chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez from right to left during a meeting in the Kremlin. In the first difficult months of the war, the defense power of the country, its economic potential grew in the Urals and Siberia.One of the large strongholds of the rear was Krasnoyarsk.

It was necessary to place 42 large defense enterprises in a short time. And these are thousands of evacuated workers. There were not enough apartments and barracks for everyone. Urgently digging dugouts with log rolling, as at the front. It was necessary to ensure the work of kindergartens, schools, hospitals. At this time, Chernenko was both an ideologist and business executive at the same time.

At this time, Chernenko was both an ideologist and business executive at the same time ”on the shore of his native Yenisei. Chernenko and P. Chernenko in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The secretaries of the Central Committee, members of the Politburo, came to him to resolve issues that are not upset. The ministers, departments, deputies of Pre -Minh turned for help.

Calmly, sometimes, it seemed, phlegmatically, he gave orders, advice, and reduced the performers. In all cases, the case moved in the right direction. No wonder the unspoken rule went to the leading circles: "Do you want the case to move for sure, - break to Chernenko." So it was. Over the years of collaboration, Chernenko never failed him, but he helped out repeatedly.

And secondly, Leonid Ilyich, in conditions of physical weakness, very often encountered the unprovenness and verbosity of those who came to him and began to convince him. Written device. A gift to K. Chernenko from the Ministry of Defense, September 24, scissors in a case. Service diary for a year. The glasses of the "rodenste" in the case. Private collection. That is, everything happened not because Chernenko was a friend, but because he had unique information and so dissected that there could be no other decision ...

this is not a friendly embrace. Did he have any independent experience in the foreign policy sphere? However, in the year, Chernenko headed the party delegation to Denmark. The chairman of the Danish Communist Party, and it was isolated and small, was KNUD ESPERSEN - a young, extremely energetic person, a former participant in resistance. One story is connected with his name.

In the evening, a reception was arranged at the Soviet embassy on the occasion of Chernenko’s birthday. Espersen came. He asked Konstantin Ustinovich to give the opportunity to somehow interact with the business. And Chernenko went to it. The shipyard of the shipyard, together with the Communists, turned to the representative of Chernenko to find out if there would be any shipbuilding customer in the USSR, who would make it possible not to turn off the production and not to drive thousands of workers into the street.

Chernenko took Danish pain close to heart. Arriving in Moscow, he personally talked with Brezhnev and brought the question to the Politburo. The shipyard received an order, and soon two dry loads came off the slipways: “Izvestia” and “Knud Espersen” - in honor of the leader of the Danish Communists, who had already died by that time. A trip to K. Chernenko to Cuba.