He also became a candidate member of the Politburo of the Communist Party. Dolgikh subsequently called General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and other members of the Politburo. Chen was Shanghai's party secretary and member of the powerful Politburo. The Secretariat supervises the preparation for issues raised at Politburo meetings. This function was combined with chairmanship of the Politburo. He became Mao Zedong's liaison with the Politburo in 1975. However, Barre's Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party politburo continued to rule. Stalin succeeded in having more of his allies elected to the Politburo. Nicolai Koloff is Ivan Drago's manager and an official of the Soviet Politburo. Krenz, the Politburo, and the Central Committee resigned two days later. In early 1986, Yeltsin began sniping at Gorbachev in Politburo meetings. Yeltsin then resigned as both Moscow boss and as a member of the Politburo. The Soviet Politburo thereafter moved to crush the revolution. He is a member of the 19th Party Politburo. This is believed to be much more infrequent than the former Soviet Politburo had met.