Word: kunaev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the night of rioting has been repaired, psychological scars remain. "There was quite a bit of tension between Russians and Kazakhs afterward," said a Kazakh schoolteacher. Young ethnic Russians were openly resentful of the demonstrators and, in some cases, of Kazakhs generally. "They didn't like it when Kunaev got thrown out," said one Russian student. "They got everything without working, through their relatives and cronies...
Dinmukhamed Kunaev, 75, had ruled the republic's Communist Party for a quarter of a century until he was deposed and disgraced at a Dec. 16 plenum of the party Central Committee. His removal and the decision to replace him with an ethnic Russian from outside Kazakhstan, Gennadi Kolbin, party leader from Ulyanovsk province, set off the demonstrations the following day. According to officials in Alma-Ata, the demonstrators were angered not so much by Kunaev's dismissal as by the decision to replace him with an outsider, Russian or not. But the motives may have run deeper than that...
...cleanup is more like a purge. The republic's former leadership has undergone scathing criticism for inefficiency, nepotism, corruption and high living. Scores of officials have been dismissed from office, including many of those responsible for education. The minister for higher education was fired last week, and Kunaev's brother Askar was ousted as president of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. The head of the republic's Communist youth organization has also been ousted. In addition, teachers are being reprimanded for not keeping students under control. But if the Kremlin was quick to punish, it was also quick to placate...
...political matters. Last week, for the $ first time, the Soviet press explicitly pinned the blame for the country's economic trouble on former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. In fact, the rioting in Kazakhstan was largely a result of Gorbachev's efforts to get rid of a Brezhnev crony, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, a Politburo member and local party chieftain who was noted for championing local autonomy against Moscow. Gorbachev replaced Kunaev with an ethnic Russian, a move widely interpreted as part of a drive to consolidate Moscow's control. Another Politburo member whose job is said to be in jeopardy is Vladimir...