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...railway worker, he was born in 1914 in the village of Nagutskoye in the northern Caucasus. At times a telegraph operator and boatman on the Volga River, Andropov began his political career at 22, when he became an organizer for the Young Communist League. After serving as a political commissar on the Finnish front during World War II, he worked in a series of party jobs, gradually gaining a reputation as an expert on Eastern Europe. As Moscow's Ambassador to Hungary, he played a key role in orchestrating the brutal Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolution...
...military takeover, the Communist Party has not recovered. Army officers hardly conceal their contempt for the party, which they consider a source of corruption and mismanagement. At the provincial level, many generals have taken over top party posts, and every factory, service agency or government office has its military commissar...
...railway worker from the northern Caucasus, Andropov was a telegraph operator and Volga boatman before he joined the Young Communist League. He served as political commissar on the Finnish front during World War II and eventually joined the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, rising rapidly to the rank of ambassador. While Ambassador to Budapest in 1956, he helped supervise the brutal Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. Though not previously a professional secret policeman, Andropov was named top cop of the Soviet Union in 1967. He quickly became known for the efficiency with which he repressed all forms of political, religious...
From the beginning, the new state was built on four interrelated means of control: centralized and absolute authority, bureaucracy, terror and militarism. Lenin's Commissar of War, Leon
...official biographer calls the "struggle against armed underground bands"-meaning the Polish anti-Communist resistance movement. After advanced infantry training and general staff college, Jaruzelski's rise was meteoric. By 1957, he commanded the 12th Motorized Division; in 1960 he was named the army's chief political commissar; in 1968 he became Poland's youngest general...