Sent to force Communism on Lithuania after World War II,he sent whole villages to prison camps in Siberia.Promoted to the Politburo,at that time called Presidium,in 1952,he was later a mover behind the coup that removed Nikita Khrushchev and installed Leonid Brezhnev in 1964.He was in charge of party ideology for much of his time in the Secretariat. His death is viewed by some as starting the battle to succeed Brezhnev,in which Yuri Andropov,who secured Suslov's ideology brief,sidelined Andrei Kirilenko and Konstantin Chernenko.