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Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov (1914 - 1984), waving from Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow, USSR, circa 1983. (Photo by Eduard Pesov/ITAR-TASS/TASS via Getty Images)

Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov (1914 - 1984), waving from Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow, USSR, circa 1983. (Photo by Eduard Pesov/ITAR-TASS/TASS via Getty Images)