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- Birth nameYuri Vladimirovich Andropov
- Yuri Andropov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, active primarily from the 1950s until the mid-1980s. His father Vladimir Konstantinovich Andropov was a railway worker of Don Cossack descent . Andropov's mother Yevgenia Karlovna Fleckenstein was a school teacher. Yevgenia was a foundling child of unknown origin, but she was adopted by the Jewish watchmaker Karl Franzevich Fleckenstein.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dimos I
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982-1984).
- CPSU official.
- Chairman of KGB (1967-1982).
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1983-1984).
- Under Andropov's leadership, the Cold War intensified while the regime struggled to handle the growing crisis in the Soviet economy. His major long-term impact was bringing to the fore a new generation of young reformers as energetic as himself, including Yegor Ligachyov, Nikolai Ryzhkov, and, most importantly, Mikhail Gorbachev.
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