This man lived a difficult life.It was difficult to time itself.Lt. Gen. modern Russia have a different reputation, but without belittling the absolute merit, to share a few of them dropped out something with which the officers of the Soviet state lived the first period of its existence.And we are talking not only about the Great Patriotic War.Lieutenant-General of the USSR and representatives of other posts regular officers of those times came from the Russian Empire.Many of them had to serve in the ranks of the royal army.Among them, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Georgy Zhukov, and our hero.They fell to survive the civil war, the party, and then the public cleansing 1920-30 period.Lieutenant General Vlasic was one of the characters, even today and a little-known, the Stalinist era.And his time was spent with the death of its leader.
childhood and youth Nicholas Vlasik
future lieutenant general was born in a poor family of one of the Belarusian peasants in 1896, in Grodno province.Having finished all three classes of the church school, he had to start his career from the age of thirteen.The young man sat a laborer to a local landowner.At an early age he had a chance to try several specialties, he worked as a digger on the railroad, an employee at the paper mill.At the age of 19 years old boy is called up for military service.It was the First World War.During the fighting, he already showed tremendous bravery, he was awarded the George Cross and promoted to non-commissioned officer rank.But Nicholas was not to Vlasik has served in the imperial army, even before the end of the war.Already in the first days of the October Revolution, he takes a fateful decision for itself and goes over to the Bolsheviks.In February 1918, the future lieutenant-general of the Red Army enters into its composition.While only an assistant commander.In September 1919, long-term Man translated into the structure of the Cheka, where he worked in a special department under the direct supervision of Felix Dzerzhinsky.In the 1920s, his career was ascending.In 1926 he became senior detective department by the time of the OGPU, and in 1930, assistant chief of department.
Stalinist guard
In fact, the secret police, "leader of the peoples", he comes back in the mid-twenties.In the mid-1930s he was appointed chief of the first department and on his shoulders rests the duty of immediate protection of senior government officials, especially Joseph Stalin.Despite massive human cleaning, which are particularly affected officers of the Army, Lieutenant-General he lasted longer than others in his position.The secret of his success was in the highest degree of confidence on the part of the head of state.According to the memoirs of Stalin's wife, Nadia, eventually it from the personal bodyguard has become a real member of the family.In addition to its direct duties, he became the de facto mayor of the palace of the family, raising children, disposing of finance, economic issues, and so on.Massive repression reached Nicholas Vlasik only at the dusk of Stalin's rule.He was arrested in December 1952.He was charged with embezzlement of the state budget.The court, he was exiled for ten years.He came back former Lieutenant General, filmed with the title, in a different country in five years (the term was reduced under an amnesty).He died in Moscow in 1967.
