Genrikas Zimanas

Zimanas Genrikas 12 May 1910 Kurdimaksciai ( Seinai county) 15 July 1985 Vilnius,Soviet activist of Lithuania .Journalist.Researcher in philosphy(1970).After graduating from Vytautas Magnus University(biology) in 1932, he taught in Ukmerge,Kaunas. In 1934 he joined the Lithuanian Communist Party(LCP)1937-40 by the Folksblat pro-communist newspaper Responsible Secretary,Committee of the National Minorities Commission to the LCP Central Committee (CC;LCP Central Committee) chairman ( mainly concerned with the involvement of Jews in anti-state communist activities).1940-41 newspaper Truth respondent, 1945-70 editor-in-chief. 1941-42 Representative of the LCP CC and the Council of People's Commissars of the LSSR for the affairs of the evacuated Lithuanians in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, contributed to anti-German propaganda and co-organized Soviet partisans. 1942-43 Deputy Chief of the LCP CC and Lithuanian Guerrilla Movement Staff, 1943 Organized Soviet guerrilla activities in Belarus and Lithuania (Soviet guerrillas in Lithuania ). 1944 First Secretary of the LCP Southern Area Illegal Committee; Under his leadership, Soviet guerrillas attacked Nazi German soldiers and the occupation administration, terrorized villagers in southern Lithuania and punished them for their loyalty to the German administration.

From 1945 to 1968 he taught at Vilnius University and from 1968 at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute; professor (1971). 1971-84 Communist magazine editor-in-chief. He was one of the most prominent LCP ideologues, urged to strengthen the USSR occupation regime in Lithuania, and promoted Soviet ideology (Marxism-Leninism) ), fought against Lithuanian national identity and patriotism, Jewish Zionism manifestations. From 1949 he belonged to the LCP Central Committee, 1958-62 - to the bureau of this committee. 1947-74 and 1979-84 LSSR, 1974-84 Deputy of the USSR Supreme Council. He has written books "Over the Flourish into Unity" (1968), We - Patriots and Internationalists (1975 21977), Silhouettes (1984), Illusions and Reality (1984).