During the Soviet period, many politicians lived through the era of Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Some disappeared because of political struggles, some became evergreen trees of the Soviet Union, and people like Suslov, Gromyko and others belonged to the steady type of politicians. By the time Gorbachev took over, it would have been difficult for Gorbachev to ascend to the throne without the help of Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko. At this time, Gromyko was already the oldest elder of the Soviet Union, and his speech was very heavy.
In the history of the Soviet Union, there was also a leading figure named Kosygin. He was one of the "troikas" of the Soviet Union, along with Brezhnev and Podgorny. As an important leader of the Soviet Union, Kosygin's life was not smooth, but it did not fluctuate. He reused it first during stalin and then discarded it. Later, he supported Khrushchev and had contradictions with Khrushchev. After Brezhnev came to power, Kosygin reused it first and then discarded it. So what kind of political path did Kosygin go through?
1. Stalin abandoned it
Kosygin was also an old Soviet politician. He joined the Red Army in 1919 and fought in the Russian Civil War. After the Civil War, Kosygin was listed as a reserve cadre and went to Leningrad for training. In 1924, Kosygin joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Siberia. After that, he studied at the Leningrad Textile Institute, and after graduation, he worked as a director of a large textile factory in Leningrad. He later became Chairman of the Parliament of Leningrad.
In 1939, when Stalin was in charge of the Soviet Union, Kosygin was elected a member of the Central Committee of the SOVIET Union, and in 1940 he was elected vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, in charge of domestic consumer goods production.
After the outbreak of World War II, he served as chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation, later as Minister of Finance of the Soviet Union, and also as Minister of Light Industry. In 1948, Kosygin was elected a member of the Soviet GZZJ and entered the Soviet leadership.
But in 1952, Kosygin was demoted to alternate commissioner. Because after the "Leningrad Incident", Kosygin was implicated, which made Stalin dissatisfied with him. After Stalin's death, Kosygin lost his alternate members and was dismissed from government office.
However, in December 1953, after Khrushchev came to power, he was reappointed by Khrushchev as vice chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR due to Kosygin's support for Khrushchev, and his status as an alternate member of the Politburo was restored.
From then on, the intersection between him and Khrushchev began.
2. Cooperation with Khrushchev and opposition
After Khrushchev came to power, he briefly reformed the domestic economy, but Kosygin strongly supported and took the task of reform. Therefore, in 1957, as vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers, he was mainly engaged in economic work. It was a pleasure to work with Khrushchev.
In March 1959, Kosygin was again appointed Chairman of the State Planning Commission, became a full member of the Presidium of the USSR, and continued to serve as the First Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Since then, Kosygin and Khrushchev have had conflicts over state governance and reform. Khrushchev thought that Kosygin's reforms were too radical, while Kosy King Kong opposed Khrushchev's arbitrary and arbitrary behavior, and did not deepen the reforms.
In fact, Khrushchev was a man of impatience, and he was anxious to achieve success in economic work, causing serious chaos to the Soviet economy. During Khrushchev's administration, localism and decentralism were rampant. In particular, he was unrealistic in formulating the seven-year plan, which led to "adventurous and miscalculation", and many of the soviet planning targets were far from being met. Moreover, the failure of Khrushchev's policies of high requisition, consolidation of farms, expansion of farms, and forced planting of corn in agriculture caused the proportion of the Soviet national economy to be out of balance and the speed of development to decline significantly.
Kosygin was disgusted by Khrushchev's failed strategy, so when Brezhnev and others plotted to oust Khrushchev from power, Kosygin was also involved.
After that, Brezhnev and others launched a "palace coup". However, after Khrushchev stepped down, Kosygin also acted as Brezhnev's messenger to speak to Khrushchev.
In October 1964, Brezhnev appointed Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, replacing Khrushchev as the de facto head of the Soviet government. After Kosygin took office, he criticized the problem of Khrushchev's policy.
3. Offend the Brezhnich
As the saying goes, "a son of heaven and a courtier", Kosygin reached the peak of his life in the Brezhnev era, and frequently appeared in the field of international diplomacy.
After the "Treasure Island Incident" between China and the Soviet Union, Kosygin also met with Zhou Gong to explore China's countermeasures. Although he hoped that Sino-Soviet relations would be restored, he could not influence Brezhnev, and Sino-Soviet relations continued to deteriorate since then.
Kosygin also contradicted Brezhnev afterwards, and in the five-year economic plan, Kosygin continued to adhere to the strategy of consumer goods production in the Khrushchev period, and the plans he formulated were more realistic. But Brezhnev was unhappy with it.
At that time, As a member of the Soviet leadership team, Kosygin was highly known in the world, and he met with the heads of state of Western countries and expressed his willingness to establish friendly relations with capitalist countries. But Brezhnev wanted to restore the Stalin era, and he wanted to cover the sky with one hand.
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Brezhnev, Suslov, Andropov, Gromyko, and Ustinov signed the resolution to invade Afghanistan, but Kosygin, who was chairman of the Council of Ministers, did not. This incident made Brezhnev dissatisfied with Kosygin.
Later, at the three plenary sessions of the Soviet Union in 1979, June and October 1980, Brezhnev criticized the economic sector of the Soviet Union and was dissatisfied with the economic situation of the Soviet Union. Kosygin understood, and Brezhnev began to point the finger at him.
Faced with Brezhnev's growing power and corruption, and Kosygin's inability to control it, he realized that he would be abandoned again. Therefore, he resigned on the grounds of illness. On October 23, 1980, Brezhnev said: Kosygin retired for health reasons! The outside world believes that Kosygin was abandoned. In fact, resignation is almost the same as abandonment, Andsykin is best to retire as the chairman of the Council of Ministers, and if he is dismissed, he will not be able to get by on the face, and there is no relevant treatment.
Two months after Kosygin retired, he died of a heart attack. It was also once considered murder by Western countries. However, from the historical data, this problem does not exist.
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