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Nov 5, 2018 · Washington, D.C., November 5, 2018 – Beginning in 1981, the KGB’s “main objective” became “not to miss the military preparations of the enemy, its preparations for a nuclear strike, and not to miss the real risk of the outbreak of war,” according to the text of a previously secret speech by then-KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov found in the Ukrainian KGB archives and published today by ...
Andropov on the Economy. Iurii Andropov, Speech to the Central Committee of the CPSU. November 22, 1982. Upon Brezhnev’s death in November, 1982, the Central Committee quickly endorsed the long-time secret police chief Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov as the new General Secretary of the party. A few months later he assumed the governmental title ...
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June 1914 — 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician, former head of the KGB, and eventually leader of the Soviet Union, succeeding Leonid Brezhnev upon his death in late 1982 and staying in power for a little over fifteen months before passing away himself. Andropov's first position of any real power came when ...
Juri Andropov. Juri Vladimirovitš Andropov ( ven. Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов; 15. kesäkuuta ( J: 2. kesäkuuta) 1914 luult. Nagutskoje, Stavropolin lähellä – 9. helmikuuta 1984 Moskova) oli neuvostoliittolainen poliitikko ja NKP:n pääsihteeri 12. marraskuuta 1982 lähtien kuolemaansa asti. [1] Andropov ehti ...
Dec 11, 2009 · Gen. Vasily Khristoforov told Interfax in an interview published Monday that previously secret documents show that KGB chief Yuri Andropov, with prior consent from the Soviet Communist Party ...
Yuri Andropov has become the new Soviet leader. What seemed earlier to be totally impossible and even fantastic has taken place in reality. The former chief of the KGB, the top cop of the most dreadful secret police in the world, has become the number one personage in the Soviet Union. With his election to this post, the Soviet Union and the ...
Yuri Andropov. English: Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов, Yuriy Vladimirovich Andropov) (15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914 – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.
