In turn he transformed himself from a Communist Party apparatchik to a moderate reformer. From 1945 he served as a party apparatchik in Latvia. By December 1992 the Kulyab province's former apparatchik turned paramilitary-leader, Emomali Rahmon, was in power. He played the false friend and Party apparatchik, O'Brien. After the war, he served as an apparatchik in Krasnoyarsk and Chita until 1924.