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NNadir

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5. You're thinking of Andropov. He was the immediate successor to Brezhnev.

Reply to brush (Reply #3)

Sat May 29, 2021, 08:49 PM

May 2021

Brezhnev had a stroke in 1975, and was largely incapacitated for a period of time. Andropov and Gromyko were actually effectively playing a huge role in running the Soviet Union until Brezhnev's death in 1982.

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