President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė: biography

Politics, according to generally accepted standards, is an unclean, difficult and often dangerous business. Therefore, when women are engaged in it, it becomes clear to what extent they are ordinary people. Today's President of Lithuania is in charge of his country for the second time, and the fact that she has not only purely feminine virtues is forced to recognize her most intransigent political opponents.

The Partisan's Daughter

In countries that have gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet machine, especially in the Baltic countries, even a remote connection with the power structures of the communist regime is particularly disastrous for the career of any politician. In order to eliminate the opponent in the struggle for power, it is enough to dig in the biography - his or his relatives - even an easy hint of cooperation with the authorities. Moreover, for a long time of the "Soviet occupation", it was possible to completely avoid interaction with similar structures for building a career of any scale by units.

The resilience of today's President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė is surprising from this point of view, since she was born in the family of a participant in the Great Patriotic War, who fought in the Soviet partisan detachment, and after serving in one of the district departments of the NKVD. Polycarpas Vladovic Grybauskas, born in 1928, as well as many veterans throughout the Union, was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree to the 40th anniversary of the Victory.

A senior daughter delicately states that her father was just a driver in a fire department and did not take an active part in hostilities or in repressions against opponents of the communist system. The positive moment in this position is obvious: the current president of Lithuania has never announced a public renunciation of the parent.

An example of a successful career of the times of the USSR

Her mother - Vitaly Petrovna Grybauskiene - was a seller by profession and a daughter in the spring of 1956. Dalia graduated from high school in Vilnius without much brilliance, was fond of basketball, which is considered in Lithuania almost a national sport. After school she worked for some time as an inspector in the personnel department of the National Philharmonic Society and moved to Leningrad, where she managed to enter the Zhdanov State University.

She studied at the evening department of the department of political economy, and in the daytime she worked as a laboratory assistant in a fur factory. The position of the laboratory assistant was considered to be a working profession, she was not subject to restrictions on admission to the party, as was the case with the intellectual stratum in Soviet society, so in 1983, the year the university graduated, the future Lithuanian president became a member of the CPSU. This was a significant factor in accelerating the career in any field.

Candidate of Science in Political Economy

Since 1983, for seven years, Grybauskaite taught political economy at the Higher Party School in Vilnius, defending her Ph.D. in postgraduate studies at the Academy of Social Sciences of the CPSU Central Committee in Moscow in 1988. Achieve such success without perseverance, willpower and dedication, even in the time of the most moldy stagnation was impossible. It is not accidental that one more sports enthusiasm for Dali - karate - is a source of courage, self-confidence and quick reaction.

Undoubtedly, if the CPSU were still the only and ruling party in a huge country, the current president of Lithuania would have reached the highest levels of the party nomenclature at the republican or even the all-Union level - so brilliant was her political career under the "occupation regime". But the Union broke up, the Communist Party of Lithuania split, and the teacher of the Vilnius VPSH, Dalia Grybauskaite, remained unemployed in 1990.

To a new orbit

The ballistic missile that has already gained speed can not be returned to the launch shaft - it was just as difficult to stop the career of the future leader of Lithuania. The driving force for her was, apart from her outstanding personal qualities, impressive knowledge in the field of economics and foreign languages.

Algirdas Brazauskas appreciated the confident English in Grybauskaitė - today he is already the former president of Lithuania, and then the politician who was just beginning to form a cadre elite for the resurgent country. In 1991, Grybauskaite was trained at Georgetown University in the United States at the Institute for International Economic Relations.

Diplomat, Minister, European Commissioner

Soon Grybauskaite, a professional in socialist political economy, became an expert in the processes taking place in capitalist economies, especially in the sphere of interactions between different countries. From 1991 to 2004 she held high positions in European structures and in the government of Lithuania:

• Director of the European Department of the Ministry of International Economic Relations;
• Plenipotentiary Minister of the Lithuanian Embassy in the United States;
• Vice Minister of Finance;
• Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs;
• Minister of Finance of Lithuania;
• Commissioner of the European Commission on Budget and Financial Planning.

Lady-President

For such a policy, the highest post of executive power in the country became the president of Lithuania. Biography of the presidential candidate in the 2009 election Grybauskaite was almost flawless, and the fact that it was an elegant blonde may have been an additional factor in her victory, although there were two other women besides 7 Dali, so she also won In the beauty contest.

A little more than half of the voters took part in the elections, but the result of Grybauskaitė - a victory in the first round with an indicator of 68.2% - is the best for Lithuania for all post-Soviet time.

The victory in the elections in four years was given more difficult. In the first round, she was unable to score more than half of the vote, and in the second round she went around the Social Democrat Balcitis by 17%. And yet from July 12, 2014, she again took up her post. On what is its success based?

Steel Magnolia

Her ideal in politics, she calls the "Iron Lady" - Margaret Thatcher. And although the scale of their achievements is still difficult to compare, Dalia Grybauskaite firmly follows the principles of the most famous women politician. The protests of her opponents in Lithuania look like "conversations in favor of the poor", although they serve as an excellent illustration of her methods.

It is alleged that the victory in the elections of 2014 became possible due to reaching an agreement with the leaders of the Lithuanian opposition on granting them solid positions in the government and in European structures, which they never waited. An attempt to inflate the scandal due to the indistinctness of some facts of the biography of Grybauskaitė (she was talking about her training in closed KGB institutions, about protection from the siloviki at all stages of her career) failed due to strict censorship by the Lithuanian presidential structures.

In the fact that she has been for many years (now 8) - the President of Lithuania, "her" mastery in mastering the main tools of politicians in the post-Soviet space is "to blame." The main ones are calls for overcoming the heavy communist inheritance in the economy and politics, for growing into a single Europe, for maintaining national identity.

The fighter against "Russian expansion"

Of the updated slogans, the "Russian threat" is a success: the President of Lithuania is now in the vanguard of the struggle against "imperial aggression" of Russia. Grybauskaite's statements about the neighboring state as a "terrorist" that declared an open war to the free world, Putin's announcement as a loyal student and continuer of the Stalin cause look extreme even for hard opponents of strengthening Russia's role in Europe and the world.

It is difficult to say what in these speeches is more - personal convictions or pure politics, and what is their goal, but one of the results is achieved - the Lithuanian president with a well-groomed appearance of a woman successfully opposing time has the authority of a granite rock among the soft hills of European politics.

In the world, as usual, there is no harmony ...

"She is married to Lithuania" - this clumsy expression, from the point of view of the Russian language, was put into circulation by one of the advisers of the father of the new Lithuanian democracy, Vytautas Landsbergis, Ramunas Bogdanas. "Work, work and once again work," - so fond of answering questions about the hobbies of Dalia Grybauskaite. Personal life of the president under reliable protection from printed and electronic media of varying degrees of yellowness. They are trying to develop the theme of her unconventional sexual orientation (which Grybauskaite denies), but for a tolerant Europe this is not a "bomb" for a long time.

The attitude to the personality of this politician in various circles is understandably subjective, and the question of the absence of a family and children as a necessary sacrifice for achieving success in a career of a woman politician is associated with more philosophical reasoning about happiness in life, and also often has no clear solution. It is undeniable that there is such a figure, unique in many senses, as the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, who has not yet said the last word.