Abstract
The article on the basis of documents of the Central Committee Secretariat of the CPSU reveals the scale and main types of abuses of regional leaders of the USSR in the first post-war years. It is shown that the Central Committee received information about the corruption of the first secretaries of regional party committees and chairmen of regional executive committees from various sources and considered it in ordinary order. In most cases, the Central Committee either did not punish regional leaders for abuses, or imposed on them mild party punishments that did not affect their careers. Dismissal, expulsion from the party and criminal prosecution were rarely used and, as a rule, under the influence of political circumstances.
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