Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich - one of Stalin's associates, a Soviet statesman and party figure - turns 130 years old. The Russian Section and, naturally, the entire Comintern (SH) recognised and will recognise Kaganovich in the future as a traitor to Marxism-Leninism or, as Enver Hoxha put it: "The corpse of Bolshevism". After the death of Joseph Stalin, Kaganovich more than effectively renounced Marxism-Leninism by joining the "Anti-Party Group" and physically supported Khrushchev. However, it should be noted that even before Stalin's death, he made many important decisions and actions to strengthen the Country of Soviets, introduced an active struggle during the revolutions and civil war, did a lot for the development of railway transport in the USSR. It is about this side of Lazar Moiseevich that we want to remember.
Lazar Moiseevich was born on 22 November 1893 in the village of Kabany, Kiev province, into a family of poor Jewish peasants. He finished school in his native village, and then studied at the school in the village of Martynovichi. From the age of 14 he tried to work at different factories, where he learnt the whole hard life of the proletariat in tsarist Russia. He worked at the mill "Lazar Brodsky", where together with 10 workers he was fired for protesting. At the end of 1911 he joined the RSDLP(b). From 1914 to 1915 he was listed in the Kiev committee of the RSDLP(b). After some time he was arrested and sent back to his native village, but illegally returned to Kiev. In 1916, under the surname Stromakhin worked as a shoemaker in Yekaterinoslav (now the city of Dnipro) and was the chairman of the illegal Union of Shoemakers. He was the head of the district and a member of the Yekaterinoslav committee of the Bolshevik Party. Because of the betrayal of a bourgeois provocateur, he left for Melitopol, where he also organised the Union of Shoemakers and a Bolshevik group. Then he moved to Yuzovka (now Donetsk). After the February Revolution he set up an organisation in Yuzovka. He was an active participant of the October Revolution. He became an organiser of the strike in Gomel and was one of the candidates at the 3rd All-Russian Congress of Soviets. From January 1918, he and other Bolsheviks worked in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). After the Soviet government moved to Moscow, he began to work there. He became commissar of the Organisational and Agitation Department of the All-Russian Collegium for the Organisation of the Red Army. Then, he was sent to Nizhny Novgorod, becoming there an agitator of the Provincial Committee. Naturally, he participated in the Civil War on the side of the Bolsheviks. He fought on the Turkestan front, where he occupied leading positions, was chairman of the Tashkent City Council. In 1921 he worked as an instructor of the All-Union Central Committee of the Union of Leatherworkers, as an instructor and secretary of the Moscow and then the Central Committee of the Union of Leatherworkers. In 1925 Kaganovich became the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. For his work and great labour, he was able to make his way into the Politburo. Under Kaganovich two courses were pursued in the national policy in Ukraine: on Ukrainianisation, i.e. promotion of Ukrainian culture, language, establishment of Ukrainian-language schools, promotion of Ukrainians in the administrative apparatus, etc., and on the struggle against bourgeois and petty-bourgeois nationalism. Kaganovich restored and expanded the industry of the Ukrainian SSR and established contacts with communists in western Ukraine. However, at Petrovsky's requests, he was recalled to Moscow and from 1926 was listed as a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In early 1930, Lazar Kaganovich became First Secretary of the Moscow Regional and then City Party Committees, as well as a full member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b). Kaganovich took a huge part in Stalin's plan to restore and build Moscow, and on 28 February 1935 he was appointed Commissar of Railways. The railway junction was very important for the young country of the Soviets. Therefore, Kaganovich spent a great deal of effort to restore this important industry. Kaganovich personally participated in the development of all projects, made many necessary measures (for example, reduced the number of cars at the stations), put diesel locomotives into operation. Lazar Moiseevich always participated in the work himself and checked new trains. For example, he drove the diesel locomotive "L-7" to check its operation. In January 1936 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Naturally, Kaganovich was involved in the emergence of the famous Moscow Metro, named in honour of Lazar Moiseevich until Stalin's death. From 1937 he was part-time People's Commissar of Heavy Industry, from 1939 - People's Commissar of Fuel Industry, from 12 October 1939-1940 - First People's Commissar of Oil Industry of the USSR. - First People's Commissar of the Oil Industry of the USSR. From August 1938 he was simultaneously Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of People's Commissars. The beginning of the war caught Kaganovich in the post of People's Commissar of Railways. In autumn 1941, when the Germans were intensively rushing to Moscow, Kaganovich signed three orders, according to which it was prepared to undermine the Sokolnicheskaya branch of the underground under construction, if the enemy manages to attack Moscow on the move. Soon Kaganovich was dismissed from his post, but thanks to him most of the railways were evacuated, thus saving them from bombing and capture by the Nazis.

After the war he held important positions, but Stalin's death ends the story of the communist Kaganovich. He is replaced by the revisionist Kaganovich, the "Living Corpse of Bolshevism". In 1956, Kaganovich joined the "Anti-Party Group" of Molotov and Malenkov. Kaganovich, like the rest of the "Anti-Party Group," did not really help anti-revisionism in any way, but helped Khrushchev's social fascism more. After the failure, he was removed from important state affairs and died quietly in Moscow in 1991.
Lazar Kaganovich was truly a more than good revolutionary, but Khrushchev's propaganda changed him forever and although we should remember and respect his services, the history of the labour movement has awarded him the indelible stigma of "revisionist".
"The world bourgeoisie has not stopped and will never stop accusing Kaganovich of the incredible 'crimes' of the Lenin and Stalin era. However, we Stalinist Khojaists criticise first of all the mistakes he committed after Stalin's death, that is, under the dictatorship of the new Soviet bourgeoisie".