Biography of Dali Grybauskaite. Political career and personal life

Each politician serves as a very convenient target for the press, which is ready to dig at least in the dark past, even in the dirty linen of a representative of "the powerful of this world," hoping for a loud scandal or at least a modest information occasion.

The beginning of the way

Now acting and running for a second term, the President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, whose biography is quite typical for all politicians in the post-Soviet space, has recently become the subject of lively and sometimes completely lively journalistic investigations.

She was born on March 1, 1956 in an unremarkable Vilnius family. The future politician graduated from high school: the diploma was full of "troika". Perhaps that is why the universities had to wait and work as ordinary employees in the personnel department of the local philharmonic society, but for a long time it was not enough: in a year the young ambitious girl left for the northern capital.

Biography Dali Grybauskaite in the Leningrad period is considered very mysterious. The official version says that at first she was an ordinary worker (as the president herself remembers), and then transferred to the chemical laboratory of the famous Soviet enterprise "Rot Front".

What was specifically involved in the service of the future politician, is not known, but the work at the factory gave a number of undeniable advantages: first, the right to temporary so-called. Limit registration, which was not at all superfluous from a remote republic to a girl, and secondly, the necessary working experience, useful for admission to a prestigious university, which was the Leningrad State University. Zhdanov.

Education

It should be noted that the biography of Dalia Grybauskaite indisputably proves only one: she did not take purpose and perseverance. In 1976, the entrance to the evening department of the Faculty of Economics of Leningrad State University was held. The future president did not leave the factory. Today classmates celebrate a fanatical focus on study, maximum concentration and total absence of personal life. Such specific behavior has caused a lot of speculation.

After graduating from the university, in 1983, yesterday's student returned to her homeland. Further vicissitudes of events in her fate indirectly confirm that her labor activity was not at all in "pushing heavy carts", as Grybauskaite herself assures, but in unrestrained public zeal. In the memoirs of classmates, she looks like a purposeful, ideological, inveterate and intractable Komsomol member.

Work experience

Perhaps this version has the right to exist, after all, after returning to Lithuania, she went to work not somewhere, but as a teacher in the Higher Party School. This educational institution has published many politicians of both the Soviet and the independent period of Lithuania. It is noteworthy that she was admitted to teaching, not having any academic degree, but being a member of the CPSU now diligently detested.

In 1988, an unfortunate misunderstanding with the absence of a dissertation was corrected: successful defense was crowned with the fact that the Academic Council of the Academy of Social Sciences attached to the Central Committee of the CPSU voted unanimously to award the candidate a Ph.D.

At that time the Soviet Union began to "crackle." The public life of the Baltic region has sharply intensified, calls for independence have been voiced, but until 1991 there is no information about a fiery struggle with the Dalí Grybauskaite regime. Her biography says that in the beginning of 1990 she worked diligently at her former place of work, then settled herself as a scientific secretary at the Institute of Economics and seemed to foretell a rapid development of events.

The beginning of political career

How she managed to disown former companions is unknown (and the immediate leader of the future president was forced to flee lustration abroad), but already in 1991, Dalia Grybauskaite turned out to be in politics, which feels like a fish in the water to this day.

A kind of impetus was the study in the US: the future president finished the course at Georgetown University. From this moment, the truly dizzying career of Dalia Grybauskaite begins: the biography is full of prestigious positions of responsibility - from the Director of the Department of the Ministry of International Economic Relations in 1991 to the Minister of Finance in 2001. I managed to work as an authorized minister at the embassy in the States, and as an extraordinary ambassador to the EU.

After Lithuania's accession to the EU, Grybauskaite is delegated to the European Commission, where she does not long engage in education and culture, but by November 2004 her post is again linked to the economy: she is a commissioner for financial planning and budget.

Ms President

During this period, its popularity is growing rapidly. The promising politician Dalia Grybauskaitė, whose photo is increasingly appearing on the pages of various publications, gets a very good press: she is compared to Margaret Thatcher, and in 2005 she even gets the title of "European Commissioner of the Year". Activities in the field of reforming the European budget receives good reviews.

Meanwhile, serious problems are beginning to arise in Lithuania's economy, and Dalia Grybauskaite, whose political career is in full bloom, sharply criticizes the country's authorities, deserving sometimes very harsh accusations of politicking.

In 2008, she becomes the "woman of the year" at home, which is very useful: the next year Grybauskaite is running for president and triumphantly wins in the first round, receiving nearly three quarters (69.2%) of the vote. While this is a record, no one has ever received such trust so far.

Relations with Russia

The political course of the current leader of the largest Baltic republic can be described 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 CPSU, this position sometimes gives rise to grins.

Nobody so violently criticizes the Kremlin and personally the President of the Russian Federation, as the Lithuanian first lady. Grybauskaite's statements about Putin's regime, open statements on the account of the "terrorist state," exuding support for Ukraine in the conflict make her a very unpleasant character for the Russian authorities. Perhaps this is what she owes to participating 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 Lithuanian president received a sharp rebuff from the Russian Federation: the representative of the Foreign Ministry advised her "to temper the Komsomol fuse and leave the complexes of the Soviet past."

Problems at customs, organized by the Russian side, also had to hint to the president that it would be easier, but it did not work at Gribauskait: in an interview given this time to the Air Force, she said that she would not talk to the President of Russia until he Renounce its aggressive policy.

Immediately after that a scandal broke out. December 9, 2014 members of the European Parliament found in their mailboxes the book of Lithuanian journalist Ruta Janutene, in which the biography of Dalia Grybauskaite was submitted with a very unpleasant side. An excellent English translation, an ominous black and red cover, no doubt, money was invested in the provocation considerable.

To say that the book is scandalous is not to say anything: Dalia Grybauskaite, whose photos immediately filled the Internet, is accused of cooperation with the KGB, heartlessness, careerism. The current patriotism is declared simply "another layer of paint" in the indiscriminate "Red Dale" media.

It will be difficult to wash off these charges against the president. Europe often lives on the principle of a well-known anecdote about a tarnished reputation: "Whether he stole something, or if something was stolen from him ... there was some dark history there."

Personal life of the head of state

Accusations of callousness and callousness also achieved a certain goal in a well-known way: the president's personal life is a mystery with seven seals: she is unmarried and has never even been in a civil marriage. Children of this 59-year-old woman do not. The yellow press even tried to "sew" to her unconventional sexual orientation, from which the politician assiduously denies, causing a storm of malicious jokes.

In the Russian segment of the Internet, Dalia Grybauskaitė (personal life, photo policy) also becomes an object of investigation and trivial speculation over and over again. There are no accusations of lesbian inclinations: on the contrary, they say that she had an affair with a high-ranking Soviet official who broke her heart.

The memories of former employees attribute Gribauskaite's affair to a member of the Komsomol district committee: with him she seemed to be "kissing on benches" under the cover of darkness. With this mysterious character, the work is also linked by the teacher in the Vilnius VPSS, where it was hard to get without an academic degree, and the "sudden" defense of the thesis in 1988, and "strange" behavior in 1990, when the Baltic States achieved independence.

Inconvenient Questions

The media is not in vain called the "fourth power": Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, whose biography actually has some dark spots, is forced to regularly answer very uncomfortable questions: for example, was her father, Polikarpas Gribauskas, servants of the NKVD. The politician claims that he did not, he worked as a fireman (a provident daughter even took a certificate from the Lithuanian Center for the Study of Genocide and Resistance).

They also ask whether Dali Gribauskaite's biography contains shameful information about her cooperation with the KGB. Attacked by the press, Mrs. President asserts that no - during her studies and work in Leningrad was an ordinary student and a worker in the factory.

Post-Soviet politicians

Strictly speaking, today's ruling elite of the former LSSR has a dubious reputation in terms of resistance to criminal regime. The former president Brazauskas is a communist. The current head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius is a Komsomol activist. The head of the election commission, who held his post for 20 long years, Zenonas Vaigauskas - in general, the author of the laudatory dissertation about the "father of all peoples" Iosif Vissarionovich.

In principle, it is unlikely that ideology is of great importance in the life of politics: power is sought not "in order" but "because". And if for this it is necessary to become a Komsomol member at the age of 14, or a communist in 27 - the game is worth the candle. So did Dalia Grybauskaite in her youth, it was such accusations and sounded in her address in recent years.

Many rightly associate this with its anti-Russian position, but this fact does not at all mean that the former adherence to communist ideas is a lie. However, such accusations are typical for any post-Soviet politician, who is also Dalia Grybauskaite. The biography, the family - whether the President herself was such a zealous Komsomol member, whether her father cooperated with the NKVD - all this from the point of view of the unclarity of the dark communist past is very doubtful, but unprovable. The archives of the all-powerful KGB carefully store their secrets, and the monstrous amount of lies produced by the free press can drown any truth.