Background
Zhemchuzhina, Polina was born in 1896.
Zhemchuzhina, Polina was born in 1896.
Worked in the Ukraine. In the early 1920s, delegate to a Moscow conference of women’s departments of party committees Met and married Molotov. Became the best friend of Stalin’s wife, Nadezhda Allilueva.
After 16 November 1932, when Allilueva was found shot, Molotov and Ordzhonikidze were the first to be called to the scene with their wives. In the 1930s, Deputy Minister of the Food Industry, Minister of the Fishing Industry, Head of Glavparfiumer (perfume industry). During World War II, one of the leaders of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Jews.
Had many conversations with Golda Meir when the latter came to Moscow as the Israeli Ambassador (the USSR being the first country to recognize Israel). In 1949, during the antiSemitic campaign against cosmopolitism, she was arrested, while Molotov was replaced by Vyshinskii as foreign minister. Sent into exile, but in January 1953, included in a group of‘Zionist conspirators’, and tortured.
After Stalin’s death, released by Beria, who called her a ‘true communist’. According to Stalin’s daughter Svetlana, who visited the Molotovs in the early 1960s, she enthusiastically remembered Stalin as being the man who had saved the Soviet Union from the fifth column, and placed all her hope on the cultural revolution of Mao Tse-tung which was at that time in full swing.