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Shelepin, Aleksandr (əlyĭksän`dər shĕlĕ`pĭn), 1918–94, political leader in the Soviet Union. Active in the Young Communist League from the early 1940s, he later became its head (1952–58). In 1957 he became a member of the Communist party Central Committee. A supporter of Premier Nikita Khrushchev Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich , 1894–1971, Soviet Communist leader, premier of the USSR (1958–64), and first secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union (1953–64).
..... Click the link for more information. , Shelepin was made head of the KGB (1958–61), the Soviet secret police. From 1962 to 1965 he was deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers. An astute politician, he participated in Khrushchev's ouster in 1964; that same year he became a member of the Presidium (later renamed the Politburo). He was also (1967–75) head of the central council of trade unions. Under Brezhnev Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich , 1906–82, Soviet leader. He joined (1931) the Communist party and rose steadily in its hierarchy. In 1952 he became a secretary of the party's central committee.
..... Click the link for more information. his power gradually diminished, and in 1975 he lost his membership in the Politburo. He was removed from the Soviet Communist party's Central Committee in 1976.

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