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Chernenko Konstantin (Ustinovich) . 1911--85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984--85) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This became palpable when the Russian experiment entered its decadent phase: the vanity and high-bourgeois kleptomania of Brezhnev and the pitiful figure of Chernenko (an old janitor with barely enough strength to honor himself as a Hero of Socialist Labor). His successors Andropov and later Chernenko followed this policy until the mid-1980s. Arriving in Moscow just when things in the USSR were looking as if they could not get worse--three Soviet gerontocrats, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, had just died seriatim and the stresses on the system were mounting as never before--Yeltsin was to set in motion forces that were hardly expected or welcomed by the man who had brought him to the center of power. |
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