Background
Ponomarenko, Panteleimon was born in 1902 in Krasnodar Krai.
politician state security officer (SMERSH)
Ponomarenko, Panteleimon was born in 1902 in Krasnodar Krai.
Studied at the Moscow Institute of Railway T ransport in the early 1930s. Studied at the Moscow Institute of Railway T ransport in the early 1930s.
Took part in the Civil War. Cheka officer. Served in the Soviet Army. Worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee under Malenkov from 1938.
1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Belorussian CP, 1938. Member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, 1939-1961. Head of NKVD control of Partisan Operations as head of the Central HQ of the partisan movement, 1942^44.
In 1945, appointed by Stalin chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belorussia. Responsible for re-Stalinization of the republic. In 1948, moved to Moscow.
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Minister of Supplies of the USSR, 1950. After Stalin’s death, for a short time Minister of Culture, 1953, but lost his seat on the Presidium of the Central Committee In 1954 lost his position and sent to Kazakhstan as secretary of the Central Committee of the CP in Kazakhstan.
Soviet Ambassador to Poland, 1956. USSR Ambassador to India, 1957. USSR Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1959.
In 1961, declared persona non grata in the Netherlands for his involvement in the attempted kidnapping of a Soviet woman defector in an Amsterdam street. Took part in a fight with the Dutch police. USSR representative at the International Agency of Atomic Energy, Vienna, 1962-1964.
Pensioned, and became a lecturer at the Academy of Social Sciences.
Religions encourage war and violence to promote their religious goals.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.