Juozas Kuolelis

Juozas Kuolelis (August 1,1930 in Gerveles,Svencionys County-September 21,2017 in Vilnius)-Lithuanian Soviet figure.

Biography

1954 Graduated from Vilnius University. 1954-1958 press officer, 1956-58. editor of the New Morning newspaper. 1956 Member of the CPSU. 1958-1960 LCP CK Instructor. 1960-1964 Director of the LCP CC publishing house. 1964-1969 Vice-Chairman of the LSSR MT State Television and Radio Committee, 1987-1989. the chairman. 1969-1972 SSKP CK Instructor. 1972-1987 Head of the Propaganda and Agitation Division of the LCP CC. 1989 Advisor to the LSSR Council of Ministers, 1989 December. - 1991 August. Secretary of the LCP (CPSU) CC for ideology. Since 1976 Member of the Central Committee of the LCP, 1975-1990. Member of the LSSR AT. [1]

He opposed the restoration of Lithuania's independence and co-founded the LCP (CPSU) organization, a parallel authority subordinate to the Soviets in Lithuania. One in 1990 April The Lithuanian SSR Citizens' Committee and the Lithuanian National Rescue Committee established in 1991, January 13 coup leaders. Arrested after the collapse of 1991 the August Putsch in Moscow. For the creation of anti-state organizations, the attempt to carry out a coup d'état in 1999-2004. imprisoned. He was sentenced to detention at the Second Rigorous Correctional Colony in Vilnius.