General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)
He ran the KGB for fifteen years, helped crush the Hungarian Uprising, then ruled the Soviet Union for barely more than a year before his kidneys failed. The brief, hardline interlude between Brezhnev's stagnation and Gorbachev's glasnost.
Andropov served as Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, taking part in the suppression of the 1956 uprising there. A decade later, on 10 May 1967, he was appointed chairman of the KGB under Leonid Brezhnev. As Brezhnev's health deteriorated from the mid-1970s onward, Andropov increasingly dictated Soviet policy alongside the foreign and defense ministers. When Brezhnev died on 10 November 1982, Andropov succeeded him as General Secretary. He moved quickly to eliminate corruption and inefficiency, criminalizing workplace truancy and investigating longtime officials for party violatio…
Sourced, dated quotes from Yuri Andropov
As it is, we are living in too brittle a world. That is why responsible statesmen must evaluate the developments and adopt a rational decision.
The Soviet state has successfully overcome many trials, including crucial ones, during the six and a half decades of its existence.
Our nerves are strong, and we do not base our policy on emotions.
It’s necessary to create conditions-economic and organizational-that will stimulate good-quality, productive labor, initiative and enterprise.
Brezhnev died in November 1982 and the USSR acquired Yuri Andropov as its new Party General Secretary.
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