9 February 1984 year
“After a serious and long illness,” the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee passed away Yuri Andropov. A man who led the KGB for 15 years and the country for a little over a year. "Romantic" from Lubyanka. Sovereign for an hour.
You can take away freedom, you just need to give the sausage first The loudest people demand silence
Born June 15, 1914 in Stavropol province. After graduating from school, he worked as a sailor and assistant projectionist.
From the age of 22 he began to grow along the party line, by June 1940 he headed the Central Committee of the Komsomol in the “annexed territories” - in Karelo-Finnish SSR. During the war, he was responsible for recruiting personnel for sabotage work in the Finnish rear and led the local partisan movement (while never being behind the front line).
During the Hungarian uprising of 1956 he worked as ambassador to Budapest and saw communists being hanged from lampposts. Came under fire twice.
In 1967 he headed the KGB. During his 15 years of rule, he was able to take control of all spheres of life in Soviet society.
We don't know the country we live in
He played the piano excellently, loved literature and wrote poetry. He also opened psychiatric clinics for dissident writers. He was a supporter of iron discipline and a “steady hand.” Prepared lists for arrests and camps in advance.
I am remembered for the high-profile trials against corrupt officials. Initiated war in Afghanistan.
The dying Brezhnev asks Andropov: - Yura, who will come after me? - I AM. - What if the people don’t follow you? - Then he will follow you, Leonid Ilyich (joke from the early 1980s)
He led the country at 67 years old, a deeply ill man. He managed to carry out a large-scale purge: he replaced 18 ministers and 37 first secretaries of regional committees. Took me to the Kremlin Gorbachev and ordered preparations for economic reform to begin.
For the last six months he was bedridden and was not even able to go to the podium of the Mausoleum during the November 1983 parade.
Some villain made a lie It’s as if people’s power is being corrupted. That's what all the smart guys say Since then, for many years in a row, Without noticing (what a misfortune!), That more often people spoil power (Yu. Andropov)
