Each politician serves as a very convenient target for the press, which is ready to delve into even the dark past, even the dirty underwear of the representative of the "powerful of this world", hoping for a loud scandal or at least a modest informational occasion.
The start of the journey
The current Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, who is running for re-election, whose biography is quite typical for all politicians in the post-Soviet space, has recently become the subject of lively, and sometimes completely outrageous, journalistic investigations.
She was born on March 1, 1956 in an unremarkable Vilnius family. The future politician graduated from high school unimportantly: the certificate was full of "triples". Perhaps that is why I had to wait with universities and work as an ordinary employee in the personnel department of the local philharmonic society, but she was not enough for a long time: a year later, the young ambitious girl left for the northern capital.
The biography of Dalia Grybauskaite in the Leningrad period is considered very mysterious. The official version says that at first she was an ordinary worker (which Madame President herself recalls), and then she was transferred to the chemical laboratory of the famous SovietRot Front enterprises.
What exactly the future politician did in the service is not exactly known, but working at the factory gave a number of undeniable advantages: firstly, the right to a temporary so-called. limit registration, which was not at all superfluous for a girl who came from a distant republic, and secondly, the necessary work experience, useful for entering a prestigious university, which was Leningrad State University. Zhdanov.
Education
It should be noted that the biography of Dalia Grybauskaite indisputably proves only one thing: she was not lacking in purposefulness and perseverance. In 1976, he entered the evening department of the Faculty of Economics of the Leningrad State University. The future president did not leave work at the factory. Today, classmates note a fanatical focus on learning, maximum composure and a complete lack of personal life. This specific behavior has given rise to many speculations.
After graduating from university, in 1983, yesterday's student returned to her homeland. Further vicissitudes of events in her fate indirectly confirm that her labor activity did not consist at all in “pushing heavy carts,” as Grybauskaite herself assures, but in unbridled public zeal. In the memoirs of classmates, she looks like a purposeful, ideological, inveterate and unbreakable Komsomol member.
Work activity
Perhaps this version has the right to exist, because after returning to Lithuania, she went to work not just anywhere, but as a teacher at the Higher Party School. This is education althe institution published many politicians of both the Soviet and independent periods of Lithuania. It is noteworthy that she was admitted to teaching without any degree, but as a member of the now assiduously hated CPSU.
In 1988, the unfortunate misunderstanding with the lack of a dissertation was corrected: a successful defense was crowned with the fact that the academic council of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU unanimously voted to award the applicant the title of candidate of science.
At this time, the Soviet Union began to "crackle". The public life of the B altics has sharply intensified, calls for independence have been heard, but until 1991 there is no information about a fiery struggle against the Dalia Grybauskaite regime. Her biography says that back in the beginning of 1990, she worked diligently at her former place of work, then got a job as an academic secretary at the Institute of Economics, and nothing seemed to foreshadow the rapid development of events.
The beginning of a political career
How she managed to disown her former associates is unknown (and the immediate leader of the future president was forced to flee from lustration abroad), but already in 1991 Dalia Grybauskaite found herself in politics, in which she feels like a fish in water according to this day.
Studying in the USA served as a kind of impetus: the future president completed a course at Georgetown University. From this moment, a truly dizzying career of Dalia Grybauskaite begins: the biography is full of prestigious responsiblepositions - from the director of the department of the Ministry of International Economic Relations in 1991 to the Minister of Finance in 2001. She managed to work both as an authorized minister at the embassy in the States and as an extraordinary ambassador to the EU.
After Lithuania joined the EU, Grybauskaite was delegated to the European Commission, where she briefly de alt with education and culture, but by November 2004 her position was again connected with the economy: she was Commissioner for Financial Planning and Budget.
Madam President
During this period, her popularity is growing rapidly. The promising politician Dalia Grybauskaite, whose photos are increasingly appearing on the pages of various publications, receives very good press: she is compared with Margaret Thatcher, and in 2005 she was even awarded the title of European Commissioner of the Year. Activities in the field of reforming the European budget receive good reviews.
Meanwhile, serious problems begin in the Lithuanian economy, and Dalia Grybauskaite, whose political career is in its prime, sharply criticizes the country's authorities, sometimes deserving very sharp accusations of politicking.
In 2008, she becomes the “woman of the year” in her homeland, which is very useful: the very next year, Grybauskaite runs for president and triumphantly wins in the first round, receiving almost three-quarters (69.2%) of the votes voters. While this is a record, no one has received such trust so far.
Relations with Russia
The political course of the current leader of the largest B alticrepublics can be characterized as aggressive, anti-Soviet and anti-Russian. Given the information about the unheard-of ideology that Dalia Grybauskaite was famous for in her youth, as well as her membership in the Komsomol and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, this position sometimes causes ridicule.
No one criticizes the Kremlin and personally the President of the Russian Federation as fiercely as the Lithuanian first lady. Grybauskaite's statements about the Putin regime, open speeches about a "terrorist state", and her ardent support for Ukraine in the conflict make her a very unpleasant character for the Russian authorities. Perhaps this is what she owes to her participation in several scandals, because the biography of Dalia Grybauskaite really gives a lot of room for imagination.
Dirty politics
After a series of interviews with international media, the President of Lithuania received a sharp rebuff from the Russian Federation: a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advised her to “moderate the Komsomol fervor and leave the complexes of the Soviet past.”
Problems at customs, organized by the Russian side, should also have hinted to the president that it would be easier, but this did not work at all on Grybauskaite: in an interview given this time to the BBC, she said that she would not talk to the President Russia until he abandons his aggressive policy.
Immediately after that, a formal scandal erupted. On December 9, 2014, members of the European Parliament found in their mailboxes a book by Lithuanian journalist Ruta Janutienė, in which the biography of Dalia Grybauskaite was presented in a very unpleasant way. Excellent Englishtranslation, ominous black and red cover, no doubt, a lot of money was invested in the provocation.
To say that the book is scandalous is to say nothing: Dalia Grybauskaite, whose photographs are immediately full of Internet, is accused of collaborating with the KGB, heartlessness, careerism. The current patriotism is declared just "another layer of paint" on the illegible Krasnaya Dala.
It will be difficult for the president to wash off these accusations. Europe often lives by the principle of a well-known anecdote about a tarnished reputation: “Either he stole something, or something was stolen from him … there was some kind of dark story there.”
Private life of the head of state
The accusations of callousness and heartlessness also reached their goal in a certain way: the president's personal life is a secret with seven seals: she is not married and has never even been in a civil marriage. This 59-year-old woman has no children. The tabloid press even tried to "sew" on her a non-traditional sexual orientation, from which the politician diligently disowns, causing a storm of unfriendly jokes.
In the Russian segment of the Internet, Dalia Grybauskaite (personal life, photo politics) also becomes the object of investigations and trivial conjectures over and over again. Here, no one is interested in accusations of lesbian inclinations: on the contrary, they say that she had an affair with a high-ranking Soviet official who broke her heart.
Memories of former employees attribute to Grybauskaite an affair with a member of the district committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League: with him she seemed to “kiss on benches” under the cover of darkness. With this mysteriousthe character is associated with the work of a teacher at the Vilnius Higher School of Education, where it seemed difficult to get without a degree, and the “sudden” defense of the dissertation in 1988, and the “strange” behavior in 1990, when the B altics sought independence.
Inconvenient questions
The media is not in vain called the “fourth estate”: Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, whose biography really has several dark spots, is forced to regularly answer very uncomfortable questions: for example, was her father, Polikarpas Grybauskas, an employee of the NKVD. The politician claims that no, he worked as a firefighter (the prudent daughter even took a certificate about this from the Lithuanian Center for the Study of Genocide and Resistance).
They also ask if the biography of Dalia Grybauskaite contains shameful information about her collaboration with the KGB. Attacked by the press, Mrs. President says no - during her studies and work in Leningrad, she was an ordinary student and factory worker.
Post-Soviet politicum
Strictly speaking, today's ruling elite of the former LSSR has a dubious reputation in terms of resistance to the criminal regime. Former president Brazauskas is a communist. The current head of the Foreign Ministry, Linas Linkevicius, is a Komsomol activist. The head of the election commission, who held his position for a long 20 years, Zenonas Vaigauskas is generally the author of a laudatory dissertation about the “father of all peoples” Joseph Vissarionovich.
In principle, it is unlikely that ideology is of great importance in the life of a politician: people strive for power not “in order to”, but"because". And if for this you need to become a Komsomol member at the age of 14, or a communist at 27, the game is worth the candle. This is exactly what Dalia Grybauskaite did in her youth, and such accusations have been made against her in recent years.
Many rightly associate this with her anti-Russian position, but this fact does not mean at all that her former commitment to communist ideas is a lie. However, such accusations are typical for any post-Soviet politician, which is also Dalia Grybauskaite. Biography, family - whether the President herself was such a zealous Komsomol member, whether her father collaborated with the NKVD - all this from the point of view of being uncomplicated by the dark communist past is very doubtful, but unprovable. The archives of the all-powerful KGB carefully keep their secrets, and the monstrous amount of lies that the free press produces can drown any truth.
