'''Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko''' (1911-1985) was a longtime [[leftwing]] [[apparatchik]] who eventually became General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU) shortly before its demise. | '''Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko''' (1911-1985) was a longtime [[leftwing]] [[apparatchik]] who eventually became General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU) shortly before its demise. |