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Nina Andreyeva | |
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Нина Андреева | |
General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks[1] | |
In office 8 November 1991 – 24 July 2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 October 1938 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 24 July 2020 (aged 81) St. Petersburg, Russia |
Political party | All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991–2020) |
Other political affiliations | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1966–1991) |
Nina Alexandrovna Andreyeva (Russian: Нина Александровна Андреева, 12 October 1938 – 24 July 2020) was a Soviet and Russian chemist, teacher, author, political activist, and social critic.[2] A supporter of classical Soviet principles, she wrote an essay entitled I Cannot Forsake My Principles that defended many aspects of the traditional Soviet system, and criticized General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his closest supporters for not being true communists. In the rebuke published in the official party newspaper Pravda the essay was called The Manifesto of Anti-Perestroika Forces.[3][4]