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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the same ranking exercise: </del>Chernenko "was okay" — <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">placing the KGB-turned-General-Secretary below even the caretaker Chernenko in Haz's judgment, </del>consistent with the anti-Khrushchevite reading where Andropov's personnel politics groomed <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gorbachev ("Gorbachev is really bad")</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Below even caretaker </ins>Chernenko <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he </ins>was okay"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) and miles above Gorbachev ("really bad") </ins>— consistent with the anti-Khrushchevite reading where Andropov's personnel politics groomed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the men who liquidated what they inherited</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yuri Vladimirovich </del>Andropov''' (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1914–1984)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">General Secretary (November 1982 – February 1984), formerly KGB chairman (1967–1982</del>) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and ambassador to Budapest during 1956</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>'''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>Andropov''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gets a thumbs-down from Haz's Soviet tier-list </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/7c7451fb-bb3b-4e4d-9903-ef1f9ee3883d/ MAJOR UPDATES stream]: "Oh</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yuri Andropov. You know what? I don't even like him."</ins>).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Record ==</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the same ranking exercise</ins>: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chernenko </ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was okay</ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">— placing </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">KGB-turned-</ins>General<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</ins>Secretary <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">below even the caretaker Chernenko in Haz's judgment</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">consistent with </ins>the anti-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Khrushchevite reading where Andropov's personnel politics groomed </ins>Gorbachev ("<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gorbachev is really bad</ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* As KGB chief</del>: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">suppressed dissent through psychiatric incarceration and exile rather than mass terror; hunted corruption (the </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Azerbaijan affair,</del>" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Shchelokov's fall); sponsored </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Afghan invasion decision.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* As </del>General Secretary <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(15 months</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">much of it on dialysis): </del>the anti-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">corruption campaign that first elevated </del>Gorbachev <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and Ligachev; discipline drives (worker absenteeism); limited economic experiments; the shoot-down of KAL 007 </del>(<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1983) and the war-scare of Able Archer.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Promoted the </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">developed socialism</del>" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">theorization while quietly preparing personnel for perestroika</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov''' (1914–1984), General Secretary (November 1982 – February 1984), formerly KGB chairman (1967–1982) and ambassador to Budapest during 1956.<br />
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== Record ==<br />
* As KGB chief: suppressed dissent through psychiatric incarceration and exile rather than mass terror; hunted corruption (the "Azerbaijan affair," Shchelokov's fall); sponsored the Afghan invasion decision.<br />
* As General Secretary (15 months, much of it on dialysis): the anti-corruption campaign that first elevated Gorbachev and Ligachev; discipline drives (worker absenteeism); limited economic experiments; the shoot-down of KAL 007 (1983) and the war-scare of Able Archer.<br />
* Promoted the "developed socialism" theorization while quietly preparing personnel for perestroika.<br />
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== Assessment ==<br />
Andropov is the ambiguous figure: the '''disciplinarian alternative''' to stagnation — but one whose chosen instruments were police and personnel rather than mass politics, and whose protégés (Gorbachev above all) liquidated what they inherited. Infrared cites him in debates over whether the USSR could have been saved from above at all (see [[Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]], [[Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko]]).<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev]]<br />
* [[Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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