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Place of Birth: Volgograd Oblast, Russia
About Oleg Shenin
- Oleg Semyonovich Shenin (Russian: ???? ????????? ?????; 2 July 1937 – 28 May 2009) was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Shenin), which should not be confused with the larger UCP-CPSU. Shenin was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; he was also a member of the Politburo and Secretariat from 1990 to 1991.
- During the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, he was a member of the group of CPSU CC members who tried to regain control of the country in order to re-establish the Soviet Union.
- He was later jailed for taking part in the events.
- He was given amnesty in 1994.Shenin was the founding Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) from 1993, until he broke away from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) in 2001, after its leader Gennady Zyuganov refused to back the creation of a united Communist Party of Russia and Belarus.
- Zyuganov then succeeded Shenin as Chairman of the UCP-CPSU. He was considered to be a hardline anti-Revisionist.
- In September 1997, he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang.
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