Sergei Pavlov (politician)

Sergei Pavlovich Pavlov (Russian: Сергей Павлович Павлов) (19 January 1929 – 7 October 1993) was a Soviet youth leader, hardline politician and diplomat.

[1] After his return, Sergei went to an agricultural college in Rzhev, and then the Moscow Institute of Physical Education, where he was appointed secretary of the Komsomol (Communist Youth League) committee.

In March 1963, he published an article in Pravda, attacking the literary journal Novy Mir over its publication of the memoirs of Ilya Ehrenburg, a short story by the future Nobel prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and other items which Pavlov thought should have been suppressed.

Writing in Pravda on 29 August 1965, Pavlov claimed: One can hardly justify a certain unilateral approach by some theoreticians and writers who view entire stages in the history of socialist society exclusively through the prism of the adverse consequences of the cult of personality.

[4]In 1967–68, the party leader, Leonid Brezhnev carried out a purge of officials associated with Shelepin, including the head of the KGB, Vladimir Semichastny, who was sacked and replaced by loyalist Yuri Andropov.

One of the most striking events of his tenure at this post was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, in which his organizational skills, authority and friendly ties in the sports world of the planet played a role, for example, with the Adi Dassler family (Adi Dassler, founder of Adidas) and his daughter Brigitte Benkler-Dassler, with the President of the NOC of Liechtenstein and member of the IOC Baron Eduard von Falz-Fein, the President of the NOC of Germany Willy Daume, the German businessman Berthold Beitz (Krupp Company), the President of the Mexican NOC Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and others.