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'''Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov''' (1914-1984) was Director of the [[KGB]] from 1967 to 1982, and in 1982 was elected General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU), succeeding [[Leonid Brezhnev]]. Despite his hard-line past, which included leading roles in the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 (he was Soviet Ambassador to [[Hungary]] at the time), the suppression of the [[Prague Spring]] in 1968, and the 1979 Soviet invasion of [[Afghanistan]], Andropov was perceived in the West as a moderniser, and an opponent of the stagnation and corruption which was one of many factors impeding the Soviet economy.

'''Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov''' (1914–1984) was Director of the [[KGB]] from 1967 to 1982, and in 1982 was elected General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU), succeeding [[Leonid Brezhnev]]. Despite his hard-line past, which included leading roles in the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 (he was Soviet Ambassador to [[Hungary]] at the time), the suppression of the [[Prague Spring]] in 1968, and the 1979 Soviet invasion of [[Afghanistan]], Andropov was perceived in the West as a moderniser, and an opponent of the stagnation and corruption which was one of many factors impeding the Soviet economy.