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309:, taking up his appointment at the start of 1963. Building on an approach he had developed during his time in Warsaw, he proved a new kind of post-Stalin Soviet ambassador. He took a relatively high-profile approach, visiting factories and exhibitions, and appearing on television. He secretly met several times with
248:, with the establishment of tractor and automobile plants as well as the creation of major agricultural enterprises. He subsequently became first deputy president of the Belorussian Council of Ministers and Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee. At the same time he resumed his studies in history at
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in August 1961 was naturally taken by the East
Germans in full consultation with the Soviet ambassador. From the East German perspective The Wall represented a necessary desperate attempt to save the state which appeared to be in the process of losing its entire working age population. With Abrasimov
405:, found he enjoyed far less direct contact with the Soviet leadership in Moscow. In 1963/64, when Ulbricht moved to control air traffic flying into West Berlin, it was Abrasimov who prevented the move. He actively opposed East German reluctance to conclude a belated post
232:, an officer in the Belarusian partisan movement which at the time was operating behind German lines with approximately 35,000 men. By the end of the war he had earned four Soviet military medals. Between 1946 and 1952 he served as permanent representative of the
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in 1968 was relatively fresh in the minds of the French political establishment, and
Abrasimov was instructed to take over the Soviet ambassadorship there to prepare for the Brezhnev visit. He remained in Paris for two years after which he returned to
298:, but directly afterwards asked to be appointed to the Smolensk Regional Party Committee First Secretary job: his request was unhesitatingly granted, and he energetically devoted himself to addressing the matters highlighted by Krushchev.
294:, concerning the collapse of agriculture in various regions including that around Smolensk. Abrasimov knew the region, and he had only respect for its hardworking people. He listened in silence to Krushchev's critical speech to a
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battalion, leaving his widow to bring up Pyotr and his sister. In 1933 Abrasimov's own specialty had become the electro-technical industrial sector. By 1939, however, he was attending the
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