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Pyotr Masherov

1918–1980 · 20th century

Pyotr Masherov was a Soviet Belarusian leader, a partisan commander in the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union. As first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from 1965 to 1980 he oversaw rapid industrial growth and the commemoration of the war. He died in a car crash in 1980.

Pyotr Masherov — Image: post of Belarus; derivative work by Makakaaaa · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Byelorussian SSR

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Pyotr Masherov. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pyotr-masherov
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