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""Andropov gets a thumbs-down from Haz's Soviet tier-list (MAJOR UPDATES stream: "Oh, Yuri Andropov. You know what? I don't even like him.").

In the same ranking exercise: Chernenko "was okay" — placing the KGB-turned-General-Secretary below even the caretaker Chernenko in Haz's judgment, consistent with the anti-Khrushchevite reading where Andropov's personnel politics groomed Gorbachev ("Gorbachev is really bad").

Until discussed substantively, this page records the placement rather than inventing analysis.

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-'''Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov''' (1914–1984), General Secretary (November 1982 – February 1984), formerly KGB chairman (1967–1982) and ambassador to Budapest during 1956.
+"'''"Andropov''' gets a thumbs-down from Haz's Soviet tier-list ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/7c7451fb-bb3b-4e4d-9903-ef1f9ee3883d/ MAJOR UPDATES stream]: "Oh, Yuri Andropov. You know what? I don't even like him.").
-== Record ==
+In the same ranking exercise: Chernenko "was okay" — placing the KGB-turned-General-Secretary below even the caretaker Chernenko in Haz's judgment, consistent with the anti-Khrushchevite reading where Andropov's personnel politics groomed Gorbachev ("Gorbachev is really bad").
-* 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.
-* 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.
-* Promoted the "developed socialism" theorization while quietly preparing personnel for perestroika.
-== Assessment ==
+Until discussed substantively, this page records the placement rather than inventing analysis.
-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]]).
 == See also ==
+* [[Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko]]
 * [[Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev]]
-* [[Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko]]
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