Died 1946-06-03.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until his death, he was a member of the Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
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politics · Soviet politician (1875–1946) · politician · teacher · engineer · also Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Mikhail Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanowich Kalinin, M. I. Kalinin, Kalinin
Born 7 November 1875 · Died 3 June 1946 · Q229828
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1946· 9 entries
And died of cancer on 3 June that year in Moscow
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“The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.”
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“The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.”
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Career landmark: member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1946–1946).
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“The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.”
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“If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.”
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“The contingencies of the moment may justify the omission of certain conveniences in the building of temporary accommodations.”
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“These [traits] are first: love, love for his people, love for the working masses...Second, honesty...Third, courage...Fourth, comradely solidarity...Fifth, love for labor. Not only love but an honest attitude to labor, firmly bearing in mind that if a man lives, eats and does not work, this means that he eats someone else's labor.”
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Was renamed Kaliningrad after him a year later
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1944· 2 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1944).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1944).
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1938· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1938–1946).
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1935).
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1930).
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1928).
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1926· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1926–1946).
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1922· 2 entries
And to Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1938
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Career landmark: Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets (1922–1938).
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1920· 1 entry
Kalinin attended the Second World Congress of the Communist International in Moscow as part of the Russian delegation
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1919· 2 entries
Kalinin was elected a member of the governing Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party as well as a candidate member of the Politburo
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Career landmark: Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1919–1926).
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1906· 1 entry
Married the ethnic Estonian Ekaterina Lorberg (Russian: Екатерина Ивановна Лорберг (Yekaterina Ivanovna Lorberg, 1882–1960)
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1905· 1 entry
Kalinin returned to St Petersburg, and moved from job to job
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1903· 1 entry
Spent six months in custody in St Petersburg, then two and a half months in Kresty Prison
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1898· 1 entry
While still working at the Putilov works
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1875· 1 entry
Born 1875-11-07.
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