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    Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914 – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician who was the sixth leader of the Soviet Union and the...
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    the Russian Navy. She was initially named Yuri Andropov (‹See Tfd›Russian: Юрий Андропов) after Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist...
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  • 1917–1991) was a Soviet woman who was the second wife of Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov. Lebedeva was born in 1917. She graduated from a pedagogical school...
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    Politburo in 1978. Following the death of Brezhnev and his successor Yuri Andropov, Chernenko was elected General Secretary in February 1984 and made Chairman...
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  • in an individual tomb on Red Square at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's eventual successor as general secretary, was chairman of...
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    died on 10 November 1982 and was succeeded as general secretary by Yuri Andropov. Upon coming to power in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev denounced Brezhnev's...
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    appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply with an invitation to visit the Soviet...
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    Intelligence (alternatively known as the SVR Academy, previously known as the Yuri Andropov Red Banner Institute and the Red Banner Institute) is one of the primary...
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    by Yuri Andropov. Andropov was the head of the USSR for a short time – on February 9, 1984, he died at the age of 69. Kuznetsov succeeded Andropov in...
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    Soviet Union as a system—not just the Kremlin, not just Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, not just the KGB, but as a system—was geared to expect an attack and...
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