ousted from his position as a party secretary, and demoted to the chairmanship of All-Union Trade Union Council, though he survived as a full member of the Politburo. In April 1975, he visited Great Britain at the invitation of the TUC, but cut short his visit after two days, instead of the planned four days, because of hostile demonstrations that he blamed on 'Zionists', though it is unlikely that many of the protestors were Jews, because it was Passover. He was removed from the Politburo upon his return, on 16 April. On 22 May 1975, it was announced that he had resigned from his position as Chairman of the Trade Union council. He was deputy chairman of the USSR State Committee for Vocational Education until he retired in 1984. Brezhnev was able to outmaneuver Shelepin, as his approach was more nuanced and more acceptable to the average Party official. Shelepin wanted centralization, discipline and strict oversight of officials domestically, and confrontation on all fronts with the United States abroad; whereas Brezhnev was happy to offer predictability, stability and job security to the party officials, and pursue a balanced foreign policy, combining détente with proxy wars. Shelepin died in Moscow on 24 October 1994, at the age of 76, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery. Honours and awards Four Orders of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class Order of the Red Star Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class References 1918 births 1994 deaths Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members KGB officers People from Voronezh Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members KGB chairmen Moscow State University alumni Soviet military personnel of the Winter War Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery