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![]() USSR Communist Party Secretaries
The office was called First Secretary from 1953-66 but otherwise was known as the General Secretary.
He was elected Deputy General Secretary, another name for deputy leader, at the 28th Party Congress. Ivashko became acting General Secretary following Gorbachev's resignation, but by then the Party was politically impotent and on 29 August 1991 it was banned.
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