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The article uses the materials of the “personal dossier” of the first communist party secretary of one of the rural Communist Party committees of the Sverdlovsk region to study the specifics of the organizational and party work during World War II. The subject matter of the disciplinary investigation by the Sverdlovsk Regional committee of the Communist Party included alcohol abuse, adultery and, as a result, family quarrels which became public and hence discredited the regional party officer. During the war the authorities were prepared to slacken a bit the tough moral and ethical norms prescribed for the party nomenclature subject to the condition that the factories, collective farms and state farms supervised by a “misbehaving” party leader fulfilled the plans for the supply of military equipment, ammunition and food to the front lines. Otherwise the orders from “the top” could be harsh, and any previous moral and ethical “sins” could be treated as the serious aggravating circumstances.
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