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The KGB chief Yuri Andropov
KGB chief and Soviet leader Yuri Andropov
Notorious KGB chief and Soviet leader Yuri Andropov forged his biography to climb the communist party's ladder, Russian edition Itogi reports. Recently declassified secret files of Andropov showed that he "adapted" his biography to the demands of the Bolshevik times – he made himself a son of an Ossetian proletarian, while he was actually from a rich bourgeoisie family, probably with Jewish roots. At the beginning Andropov, according to the files, was not very accurate while inventing his family's "proletarian" past. He was questioned at least four times in the thirties because of the discrepancies in several forms he filled. Each and every time he managed to fool commissions that checked his background. The final version of his biography stated that he was the son of a railway official and was probably born in Nagutskoye, Stavropol Guberniya, Imperial Russia. But as the top secret archives showed, Andropov was born in wealthy Jewish family – Feinstein or Flekenstein in Moscow. His father, most probably died fighting in the ranks of the so-called "White Army", which battled the Bolsheviks. His family, which allegedly arrived in Russian from Finland, may have been dealing in dimonds and suffered from

Andropov's mother Evgenia (photo: "Andropov and KGB" by Sergey Chertoprud, 2004)
Andropov's mother
"pogroms" during the WW I. One of the most interesting details is that Andropov (whose real name was Grigory and not Yuri), was born several hundred metres far from the Lubianka – Soviet secret police headquarters in Moscow, Itogi reports.
Reference file:
Andropov was born in 1914. In 1951 and joined the Communist party secretariat. In 1954, he became the Soviet Ambassador to Hungary. Andropov was one of those responsible for the Soviet decision to invade Hungary during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Later he headed the Department for Liaison with Socialist Countries (1957-1967) and was promoted to the Central Committee Secretariat in 1962, succeeding Mikhail Suslov, and in 1967 he was appointed head of the KGB. In 1973 Andropov became a full member of the Politburo, although he did not resign as head of the KGB until 1982. A few days after Leonid Brezhnev's death (November 10, 1982), Andropov was the surprise appointment to General Secretary over Konstantin Chernenko. He was the first head of the KGB to become General Secretary. His appointment was received in the West with apprehension, in view of his roles in the KGB and in Hungary. In foreign policy he achieved little — the war continued in Afghanistan. Andropov's rule was also marked by the deterioration of relations with the United States. Andropov died of kidney failure on February 9, 1984, after several months of failing health. He is buried in Moscow, in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.



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