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Andropov

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Andropov
Yuri Vladimirovich. 1914--84, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1983--84)


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Exchanges continued sporadically but ineffectually with Brezhnev up to his death in November 1982, then with Yuri Andropov until he died in February 1984, then Konstantin Chernenko, who died in March 1985, and finally with a younger generation leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Khomeiniism was the perfect made-to-order fit for the Andropov Paradigm: the plan to craft and promote a radicalized, Leninist form of Islam to infect millions of Muslims worldwide with fanatical anti-American hatred.
Two days after Brezhnev's death, Yuri Andropov became the first former head of the KGB to become General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
 
 
 
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