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After reading your obituary on Leonid Brezhnev, my first thoughts were that he was not such a bad guy after all. However, the details about his role in the bloody Afghanistan coup brought me back to reality. Danny Van Loo Nieuwpoort, Belgium
Prior to the death of Leonid Brezhnev, a fairly strong consensus had emerged among Kremlinologists that Yuri Andropov would be the next Soviet Premier. Now Soviet experts are speculating on what Andropov's assumption of power means for Russia and for the rest of the world. The Crimson this week interviewed three Soviet specialists from Harvard's Russian Research Center on their views of this post-Brezhnev era. The participants were Assistant Professor of Government Mark R. Beissinger, David E. Powell, a Russian Research Center associate who recently wrote a book entitled Anti-Religious Propaganda in the Soviet Union...
...vaulted, neoclassical chamber of the Great Kremlin Palace was different. As the 1,500 Deputies filed in to take their seats, diplomats and journalists who crammed the visitors' gallery animatedly discussed only one topic: Would there be a selection of the next President of the Soviet Union? Since Leonid Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, the ceremonial and highly visible post has been vacant. Kremlin watchers now wondered if Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who had so swiftly succeeded Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Communist Party, would also aspire to a second title as head...
Some of the businessmen had been afraid that the death of Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev five days before the trade session was to begin would force a cancellation. But according to retired Armco Inc. Chairman C. William Verity Jr., Soviet trade council officials were on the telephone within two hours after Brezhnev's death was announced, urging the Americans to come ahead. To Verity, co-chairman of the trade group, that was a hopeful sign that the Soviets felt that "the time had come for an improvement in relations...
...emphasizing that there would be no sudden changes in Russia following the death of Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, Chertikov said that the U.S. government and press had "tried to read too much into" Andropov's experience as the director of Russia's KGB police service, and his thorough knowledge of the West...