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Panteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko(Belarusian: Пантэляймон Кандрацьевіч Панамарэнка, Russian: Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко) (9 August 1902 - 18 January 1984) was a general in the Red Army and a Soviet administrator appointed to Belarus and later to Kazakhstan.
Panteleimon Ponomarenko was born in Krasnodar krai, Russia.
From 1938 to 1947 Ponomarenko was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belorussia. During World War II he led Communist partisan units on the territory of Nazi-occupied Belarus. He clashed with the Polish underground, and gave orders for his troops to disarm them which unavoidably led to a number of deaths.
Ponomarenko allegedly facilitated repressions against Belarusian national intellectuals, Russification of Belarus, and the cleansing in West Belarus annexed to the USSR in 1939.[1]
From 16 October 1952 until 6 March 1953 Ponomarenko was a member of the Politburo of the CPSU. In 1954 - 1955 he was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR. From 1955-1957 he was the Soviet ambassador to Poland.[2][3]
Ponomarenko also taught diplomacy and helped set up the National Jazz Orchestra in Minsk.
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- ^ Спадар Панамарэнка абражаў культуру і мову, фактычна падпісваў смяротны прысуд літаратурным дзеячам, абвінаваціўшы іх у “контррэвалюцыйнай нацыяналістычнай працы, ідэйна кіруемых заўсёды дзесяткам прафашысцкіх пісьменнікаў (у тым ліку Янкам Купалай і Якубам Коласам)...”
- ^ Brown, Archie (1990) "Ponomarenko, Pantaleimon Kondrat'evich (1902-1984)" The Soviet Union: A biographical dictionary Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, ISBN 0-02-897071-3 ;
- ^ Vronskaya, Jeanne and Chuguev, Vladimir (1988) "Ponomarenko, Panteleimon Kondrat'evich (1902-1984)" A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917-1988 K.G. Saur, London, ISBN 0-86291-470-1 ;
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- This article is based in part on material from the Polish Wikipedia.
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