The Soviet Country. Forgotten Leaders

Andrey Zhdanov (1x5)

Air date: May 28, 2017

His activities were evaluated in different ways even during his lifetime. He created the industry of the Soviet Union, while closing monasteries and blowing up churches. Thanks to his efforts, the besieged Leningrad survived, and Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko were stigmatized by his decrees. Throughout the war, the state leadership in the North-West of Russia and in Leningrad was carried out by Andrei Alexandrovich. The most severe blockade drained Zhdanov's health and, in fact, predetermined his early death.