The former secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Egor Ligachev died. He was 100 years old

At the age of 100 years, the former secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Egor Ligachev died. This was reported by TASS with reference to the head of the Department of Information Policy of the Administration of the Tomsk Region.

“Tonight, May 7, in Moscow, in the 101st year of his life, the honorary citizen of the Tomsk region Yegor Ligachev died,” TASS quoted the words of the interlocutor.

Egor Ligachev was born in 1920. In 1943, he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, in 1951 - in absentia the highest party school under the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party.

Ligachev was the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1983-1990 and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1985-1990.

In 1985, Ligachev supported the candidacy of Mikhail Gorbachev in the elections of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. At the same time, in 1992, Ligachev acted as a witness in the CPSU case in the Constitutional Court of Russia, where he stated that he considered his “largest personnel mistake” to participate in the nomination of Mikhail Gorbachev to the post of Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee. He was also remembered as the author of the phrase “Boris, you are wrong,” said in 1988 to the future president of Russia Boris Yeltsin.

In 1985-1988, as a secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, he was responsible for the questions of ideology. In the same period, he was one of the initiators and leaders of the anti -alcohol campaign in the USSR. In July 1990, he was removed from all party posts and retired. In 1999-2003, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation.