Juozas Maniušis was a communist politician in the Lithuanian SSR

Lithuanian SSR

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 specializing in areas of industry, construction, and engineering. Between 1967 and 1981 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers (equivalent to Prime Minister). He earned PhD in Economics in 1970.

Maniušis graduated from a pedagogic institute in Minsk

Minsk

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 in 1931 and from a road building institute in Leningrad

Leningrad

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 in 1938. During World War II

World War II

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 he served in the Red Army

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, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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 in 1945. After the war he moved to Lithuania where he worked as deputy chairman of Vilnius

Vilnius

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 and chairman of Kaunas

Kaunas

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 committees of the Lithuanian Communist Party (1944–1950). Between 1950 and 1955, he was Minister of Construction. From 1955 to 1967 he worked as Secretary of the Central Committee

Central Committee

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 of the Lithuanian Communist Party. In 1967 he became the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. He was only of the very few top Soviet functionaries who were not native Lithuanians. After retirement form politics in 1981, he headed the Institute of Economy of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

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until 1985.