‘I ASK THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO BRING ME BACK TO LIFE, GIVE ME A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE TO BELONG TO THE GREAT PARTY OF LENIN AND STALIN': THE STRUGGLE OF I. M. ZALTSMAN FOR RESTORING IN THE PARTY RANKS
Having been expelled from the CPSU(b) in 1949, I. M. Zaltsman, former director of the Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant, launched a struggle for restoring in the party ranks. The justification of the accused in the ‘Leningrad case' and the ‘case of the Jewish Antifascist Committee' after J. V. Stalin's death allowed I. M. Zaltsman to dismiss key charges against him and reinstate himself in the party. This fact, in turn, gave him an opportunity to be appointed as a director of one Leningrad plant, and subsequently to create a myth about his dismission and expulsion from the party, connected allegedly with the «Leningrad case», and blow it about. At the same time, it was not a complete party justification of I. M. Zaltsman with a reversal of a party expulsion judgment and withdrawal of all charges, as Zaltsman described it. In 1955 he was reinstated in the party by the decision of the Party Control Committee of the Central Committee of CPSU, but there was an indication of a break in the party experience. In 1981 the secretariat of the CPSU 26th Congress resolved to remove the break in I. M. Zaltsman's party experience, considering that he recognized and condemned his past misdeeds.