he was also appointed head of the council for the repatriation of Soviet prisoners of war. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mentions Golikov briefly in a footnote in part one of his Gulag Archipelago, implicating him in the mass incarceration in the gulag system of former Soviet POWs who returned home after World War II. He writes, "One of the biggest war criminals, Colonel General Golikov, former chief of the Red Army's intelligence administration, was put in charge of coaxing the repatriates home and swallowing them up." Later career After the war, Golikov held a succession of mainly political posts at the USSR Ministry of Defence. In 1946, Stalin began to resent the praise heaped on Marshal Zhukov as the architect of victory, so Golikov presented a detailed case against the Marshal at a special session of the Military Council, in June. Zhukov was publicly humiliated and relegated to a minor military post. In 1949–50, Golikov contributed to the Leningrad affair, the virulent purge of the Leningrad party leadership, by engineering the dismissal of the head of the Main Political Administration of the Armed Forces, Iosif Shikin. In 1950, he was given command of a mechanised army, and in 1956 was appointed head of the Military Academy of Armoured Troops. In January 1958, he benefited from the second fall of Marshal Zhukov, by being appointed head of the Main Political Administration of the Armed Forces, his job being to ensure that the military stayed under communist party control. He was abruptly dismissed in April 1962, officially for health reasons, though the real reason may be that he opposed Khrushchev's decision to ship nuclear missiles to Cuba. Afterwards, he was appointed Inspector General of the USSR Ministry of Defence. Golikov died on July 29, 1980 in Moscow and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. Awards and decorations USSR Foreign Further reading McCauley, Martin. Who's Who in Russia since 1900 (Routledge 1997) p 94 References External links Biography of Marshal of Soviet Union Filipp Ivanovich Golikov 1900 births 1980 deaths People from Kurgan Oblast People from Kamyshlovsky Uyezd Bolsheviks Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Fourth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Fifth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Sixth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia Marshals of