18 February 1937 year
He shot himself in his Moscow apartment Grigory (Sergo) OrdzhonikidzePeople's Commissar of Heavy Industry. Friend of Stalin, enemy of mass repressions.
He had no complaints in the morning, but at 5:30 pm during his afternoon rest he felt unwell, and a few minutes later he died from cardiac arrest.. (official death certificate) Ordzhonikidze saw that he could no longer work with Stalin. To avoid sharing responsibility for his abuses of power, he decided to commit suicide. (Nikita Khrushchev)
Born in October 1886 in Georgia. He became fascinated with revolutionary ideas at the age of 17 and was arrested with a weapon a year later. He was imprisoned three times and escaped twice. He spent eight years in prison and hard labor.
With Stalin He became friends with him in 1907, when they shared a prison cell in Baku. He was one of the few who later addressed the leader of the peoples as "you." And the only one who called him "Soso"—a diminutive of "Joseph."
He established Soviet power in Transcaucasia and earned the nickname "the battering ram of the revolution."
From 1932, he was responsible for the development of heavy industry, essentially industrialization. Under his leadership, the USSR became the world's leading producer of tractors, cast iron, electricity, and trucks.
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He was known for his hot temper and even got into a fight with Molotov because of literary disputes. But he couldn't hold a grudge and was sincere.
He was concerned about the growing pressure on the party "opposition." He tried to convince Stalin that the arrests of important specialists would harm industry and the country. Ultimately, he lost the battle. Beria and began to lose the leader's trust. On his 50th birthday, he learned of his brother's arrest.
He shot himself a few days before the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), where he was required to deliver a report "on the lessons of sabotage, subversion, and espionage by Japanese-German-Trotskyist agents." The surviving draft says almost nothing about these "enemies," focusing instead on the shortcomings of the People's Commissariats.
According to one theory, he was poisoned. But there is no evidence of this: the body was cremated, and the doctors who performed the autopsy were executed.
