List Of Dead Commies

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On 17/09/2017 at 17:21, Thatcher said:

It has only recently been announced that Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet Lieutenant Colonel, died back in May of this year. He was profiled by the BBC, and we all have him to thank as when the Soviet radar showed that the USA had launched a nuclear attack in 1983, he judged the reports to be false and the technology faulty - a decision which is said to have prevented an erroneous retaliation by the Soviet Union.

 

Edit: The Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian obituaries.

 

And if you have a spare hour and a quarter it will be well-spent watching this fantastic documentary, which profiles how close nuclear apocolypse was to becoming reality in 1983 with reference to this incident as well as Abel Archer etc. With a fantastic set of 80's tracks thrown in for good measure (you know it's going to be good from the intro sequence alone):

 

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v55760583xQkAkrNQ

 

(32 mins in for Petrov)

[drol 11,944]

On 02/11/2015 at 20:40, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Some rather unpleasant men who are still alive:

Wolfgang Schwanitz - final head of the Stasi (born 1930)
Werner Großmann - deputy head of the above organisation (born 1929).

Their predecessors have all passed away.

Also:
Rezső Nyers - final leader of Communist Hungary (born 1923),
Miloš Jakeš - Czech Communist leader (born 1922),

Hans Modrow - East German leader (born 1928),
Egon Krenz - final leader of East Germany (born 1937).

Last communist dictator of Hungary Rezso Nyers has died aged 95. 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

You already know what I'm going to say, don't you drol....

[charon 4,943]

Leonid's grandson Andrei at 57.

 

http://tass.com/society/1012645

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Romanian authorities say Alexandru Visinescu, a communist-era prison guard serving a 20-year sentence for crimes against humanity, has died in prison at 93.  Visinescu died Monday at Rahova prison hospital.

He was convicted in 2015 for the abuse and killing of prisoners at Ramnicu Sarat prison in eastern Romania during his command from 1956 to 1963. He was imprisoned in February 2016 after losing his appeal.
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[Jeremy Corbyn 89]

This is my favourite Death list thread

[charon 4,943]

Igor Korobov at 62.

 

Head of the GRU

 

https://www.rt.com/news/444590-russia-gru-head-dead/

 

 

 

 

 

* worth noting his predecessor, Igor Sergun, also died suddenly in Office, aged only 58. Wha's next for the gig?

[charon 4,943]

 

And the result of the long winded non sober post was tipping up Sean Garland.

 

Now deid.

 

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/veteran-republican-sean-garland-passes-away-aged-84-37625356.html

 

 

 

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,519]

On 14/12/2018 at 06:27, charon said:

 

And the result of the long winded non sober post was tipping up Sean Garland.

 

Now deid.

 

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/veteran-republican-sean-garland-passes-away-aged-84-37625356.html

 

 

 

 

Surprisingly late, but a QO is now out there for Garland.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

President Xi Jinping’s former father-in-law, Ke Hua, who was involved in the early stage of Sino-British talks on Hong Kong’s future in the early 1980s, died in Beijing on Tuesday at the age of 103.

Ke Hua’s youngest daughter, Ke Lingling, was Xi’s first wife. Their three-year marriage ended in 1982 and she subsequently moved to Britain.

In 1954, Ke Hua joined China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became the first person to take up the post of director general of its protocol department. In 1960, he became China’s first envoy to an African country with his appointment as ambassador to Guinea.  He served as director general of the ministry’s department of Asian affairs in the mid-1970s and was appointed China’s ambassador to Britain in 1978.

In July 1982, Ke discussed with then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher Hong Kong’s future when he hosted a dinner for the “Iron Lady” at the Chinese embassy in London.
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[Spade_Cooley 9,519]

Carlos Altamirano, who was general secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party throughout the 1970s, dead at 96. He managed to escape to Cuba when Pinochet killed Allende, and ruled the party in exile. Chile's special forces unsuccessfully tried to assassinate him at General Franco's funeral in 1975 as well.

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

For completeness, Guardian obit for anti-war left wing activist Walter Wolfgang.

[msc 18,439]

Very well liked man, known for his kindness and gentle demeanour.

[Ulitzer95 12,586]

7 minutes ago, msc said:

Very well liked man, known for his kindness and gentle demeanour.

And one of the few Jews Jezza liked by the looks of it. 

[YoungWillz 21,037]

8 minutes ago, CoffinLodger said:

The last of the communist era leaders of Eastern Europe Milos Jakes , ex leader of Czechoslavakia has died at 97 https://www.macaubusiness.com/czechoslovak-communist-leader-milos-jakes-dies-at-97-report/

Milos Jakes a Commie, you say?

[Thatcher 2,405]

Jan Myrdal, Swedish Marxist-Leninist and son of Nobel Laureates Gunnar and Alva, has died aged 93.

[YoungWillz 21,037]

Fikre Selassie Wogderess PM of Ethiopia in the late 1980s, being reported dead: https://addisfortune.news/news-alert/former-prime-minister-of-ethiopia-fikre-selassie-wogderess-passes-away/

[drol 11,944]

Mengistu is by far the eldest living Ethiopian "statesman". All other PMs and Presidents born in the 30s/40s are dead.

[arghton 6,715]

Mengistu's vice president from 1987 to 1991, Colonel Fisseha Desta (1941-2022) is still alive. Not very known or talked about though.

 

Also the last alive Ethiopian vice president.

[arghton 6,715]

https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreana_Družina

Andreana Druzina, Slovenian political comissar and partisan awarded People's Hero of Yugoslavia in 1953 dead at 101 years. She was also the last alive female recipient of this award.

https://www.mladina.si/205689/v-101-letu-starosti-umrla-zadnja-narodna-herojinja/

 

This was the third-highest decoration in Yugoslavia.

Higher were:

Order of Freedom (awarded to 9 people, the only alive being Nebojsa Pavkovic)

Order of the Yugoslav Star, highest national order of merit (awarded to 127 people, the alive being Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Harald V, Margrethe II, Carl XVI Gustaf, Akihito and Ion Iliescu)

[arghton 6,715]

Last alive recipients of different soviet and yugoslav awards:

 

Recently extinct:

Order of Victory: 20 awarded in 1943-1945 and one in 1978. Last alive recipient was Michael I (1921-2017)

Marshal's Star: around 200 awarded in 1940-1991. Last alive recipient was probably Dmitry Yazov (1924-2020)

 

Under 100 left:

 

Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR": 13 awarded (first class) 1982-1990, with a little digging, found the alive recipients, listed here:

2 - Vasily Alekseevich Poroshin (b. 1938)

6 - Gennady Konstantinovich Loshkarev (b. 1938)

8 - Alexander Semyonovich Verevkin (b. 1927)

10 - Boris Nikolaevich Agapov (b. 1946)

12 - Vasily Petrovich Shcherbakov (status unknown)

 

Pilot-Cosmounaut of the USSR: 72 awarded, probably over half are still alive.

 

Order of the Yugoslav Star: Awarded 127 people, usually other state leaders. Alive:

Elizabeth II (b. 1926), Harald V (b. 1937), Margrethe II (b. 1940), Carl XVI Gustaf (b. 1946), Farah Pahlavi (b. 1938) and Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1938)

 

Yugoslav star of FRY and Serbia and Montenegro: 9 awarded 1999-2004, alive:

Исмаил ал Кади, alive? Former Syrian ambassador to Belgrad in 1999.

Anatoly Kvashnin (b. 1946)

Ion Iliescu (b. 1930)

Emperor Akihito (b. 1933)

 

[arghton 6,715]

On 02/11/2015 at 21:40, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Some rather unpleasant men who are still alive:

Wolfgang Schwanitz - final head of the Stasi (1930-2022)
Werner Großmann - deputy head of the above organisation (1929-2022).

Their predecessors have all passed away.

Also:
Rezső Nyers - final leader of Communist Hungary (1923-2018),
Miloš Jakeš - Czech Communist leader (1922-2020),

Hans Modrow - East German leader (born 1928),
Egon Krenz - final leader of East Germany (born 1937).

https://www.bietigheimerzeitung.de/inhalt.werner-grossmann-letzter-chef-der-ddr-auslandsspionage-gestorben.7fc4a358-5c29-4eb4-8619-5545c78f9a64.html

 

Stasi general Werner Großmann dead at 92. Schwanitz, Modrow and Krenz are still alive.

Modrow is still active. Krenz is still active too, looks a bit frail (very pale, car crash a few years ago) but still active (and a putinite asshole) and released a new book last year with his 99-year old lawyer Friedrich Wolff. 

[arghton 6,715]

On 28/01/2022 at 22:26, arghton said:

Stasi general Werner Großmann dead at 92. Schwanitz, Modrow and Krenz are still alive.

Not anymore: Wolfgang Schwanitz, final head of STASI dead at 91 as mentioned in the D-A-CH DL 2022 thread:

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/wolfgang-schwanitz-ehemaliger-stasi-general-und-erich-mielkes-nachfolger-gestorben-a-a2fb3241-7cba-4f9d-bb00-3d03db8f28b2

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Neil Faulkner, a noted Marxist historian and archaeologist, has died. He was 64. He'd been battling an aggressive form of blood lymphoma for several months.

 

https://anticapitalistresistance.org/neil-faulkner/

[YoungWillz 21,037]

On 12/12/2020 at 21:44, arghton said:

Mengistu's vice president from 1987 to 1991, Colonel Fisseha Desta (b. 1941) is still alive. Not very known or talked about though.

 

Also the last alive Ethiopian vice president.

Fisseha Desta being reported dead: