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...chief, first in Ukraine and then in Russia, the beefy Vitaly Fedorchuk was known as a thug. Thought to be behind kidnappings and murders as the "Butcher of Ukraine," he later persecuted Russians who had too much contact with foreigners before finally becoming highly visible as the Soviet Union's top cop in the '80s. His efforts at first seemed to foreshadow perestroika-like reforms: he exposed official corruption and condemned drunkenness. But Western analysts called his heavy-handed tactics "neo-Stalinist." In the late '80s Mikhail Gorbachev sidelined him. Fedorchuk...
Even Soviet police officers were told to shape up. Interior Minister Vitali Fedorchuk announced that some of the country's men in gray were being purged because they were "immature in an ideological and moral way." There had been complaints from Soviet citizens, he said, concerning "late reaction to hooliganism and theft, and time lags in investigating crimes." Fedorchuk also denounced alcoholism as a "great social evil." He said that drinking accounted for almost half of all crimes committed in the Soviet Union and warned that the police would "not be liberal toward drunkards...
...chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone civil police with his successor at the KGB, General Vitali Fedorchuk...
Most of Andropov's major appointments to date seem designed to consolidate KGB power further. He elevated onetime Azerbaijan KGB Chief Geidar Aliyev, 59, to the key post of Deputy Premier. He sent Vitali Fedorchuk, 64, who replaced Andropov as KGB chief last year, over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which
...crackdown. To the friends and foreign correspondents who flocked to his home after he returned from the prosecutor's office, the historian described police sweeps that are going on throughout the Moscow area and elsewhere in the country under Andropov's new Minister of Internal Affairs, Vitali Fedorchuk, who became notorious for brutal methods when he was KGB chief in the Ukraine. "You can't imagine the scale of these sweeps at stores, restaurants, movie houses and even the public baths," said Medvedev. The purpose of the raids is to root out individuals who do not possess...