Yuri Andropov. Part 1. Intellectual From The KGB

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Yuri Andropov. Part 1. Intellectual from the KGB

In the team of the Brezhnev leaders, Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was considered the most closed person, a liberal intellectual who shared Western values, and at the same time a supporter of Stalin in preserving rigid conservative forms of socialism. In the West, he was compared to Kennedy. Andropov, indeed, contrasted with the decrepit and ossified Soviet elite, being the youngest contender for the role of head of state.

“Andropov was a person with whom hopes for the best were associated …”

V. V. Putin

In December 1983, Time magazine named Yuri Andropov, the newly elected head of the USSR, the Person of the Year, two months later he was gone.

Despite the short term in office of the leader of the USSR and an iron grip, in spite of the restriction of dissident "freedom" that he began and the elimination of the corruption rust corrupting the country that penetrated state structures, in the conditions of complete deideologization of society and the emasculation of political and party meanings, he became popular in people.

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov is the only one of the country's leaders whose biography is still classified. In the West, the election of the new leader of the Land of the Soviets aroused great interest. At the same time, the West understood that Andropov's state of health would not allow him to sit for a long time in the chair of the secretary general and that he would most likely be a transitional figure in the country's leadership, which happened 15 months later. Academician Chazov, the head of the Kremlin medicine, in a frank conversation with Yuri Vladimirovich, who suffered from kidney disease from his youth, promised him five years of life.

The key to survival is information

Well-developed properties of the olfactory vector, natural non-verbal intelligence helped him better than others to understand the situation, correctly assess the state and moods of modern youth. Having behind him the experience of the Hungarian coup of 1956, provoked in many respects by Khrushchev's speech at the famous XX Congress of the CPSU, Andropov was well aware of the risks facing the Country of Soviets.

Oral provocation by Nikita Sergeevich at the 20th Party Congress in February 1956, which ended in the debunking of Stalin's personality cult, had the effect of a hurricane that blew off the roofs not only of the students in the USSR, but also of the youth of the entire Eastern Socialist Bloc.

The report, which slandered the "leader of all times and peoples", placed false accents of half-truths, sealed by a single mutual guarantee of the Khrushchev clan, had the most negative impact on the objective assessment of the entire 30-year activity of Stalin, canceling out all his merits, opening the way for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. Khrushchev's unexpected "revelation" and the wave of indignation it provoked played into the hands of the Western special services, which, as always, did not ignore any breeze on one-sixth of the land and precisely used the ideological crack created by Khrushchev to create future unrest.

The attempt of the Hungarian coup in 1956 became a harbinger of all subsequent “orange revolutions”, which ended with the Ukrainian Maidan and the tragic events of the spring and summer of 2014. The family of Yuri Andropov, who was at that time in the diplomatic service in the Hungarian People's Republic, became a witness of the bloody massacres, akin to the Maidan.

The new Hungarian government, five months after Stalin's death, did not like the pro-Soviet course of accelerated industrialization and collectivization of a country where there were no elements of capitalism. As a result, the Hungarian government released political prisoners and removed control from dissidents.

And the Hungarian counter-revolution, and the unrest in Poland, the GDR, and the "velvet revolution" in Czechoslovakia were fragments of the same scenario, adjusted only for geography. This chain stretched from Hungary in the 50s into the 21st century, covering the Caucasian republics, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, including a series of color revolutions throughout the post-Soviet space and events in Syria and the Maidan. Feeling the possibility of a similar development in Eastern European events, back in 1962, “our partners” tried to organize spontaneous “popular discontent” on the territory of the Soviet Union. But the Novocherkassk "riot", which was designed by former criminals, enemies of the Soviet regime, the Cossacks of the former SS corps of General Helmut von Pannwitz, was suppressed.

In 1956, the powerful oppositional opposition, the very part of the intelligentsia, which today is usually called the "fifth column", consisting mainly of writers and journalists, with its critical articles helped to shatter the already flimsy foundations of the Hungarian Republic, and followed by hand to the streets, as always out of good intentions, "long discredited in the eyes of the public … fascists," salashists and hortists ", well-known for public executions of communists and sympathizers of the" people's power ".

The future head of the Soviet political secret service, Yuri Andropov, who came to work in the KGB a few years later, well remembered both the Hungarian and Novocherkassk events, made his own conclusions from them. Hungarian fratricide, execution by hanging "yellow-bottomed people" and accidental victims on lanterns and trees in front of the windows of the Soviet embassy in Budapest left a deep mark on the mental health of Andropov's wife Tatyana Filippovna, and Yuri Vladimirovich himself, having returned to Moscow, suffered a heart attack. Anality and smell, sound and sight - all this refers to the set of natural vectors of the Secretary General, who ruled a huge country for 15 months and ruled for 15 years one of the most powerful closed structures in the world - the KGB.

He is still remembered with bitterness of loss as an intellectual and poet by everyone who happened to work or communicate with Andropov. Others see him as a strangler of free speech and a man under whom the KGB of the USSR acquired the reputation of the most sinister institution in the world, and the country was labeled an "Evil Empire" at the suggestion of the former Hollywood macho Ronald Reagan.

Everyone had their own expectations from Andropov's arrival. No one doubted that the former head of the KGB was exclusively informed about the true state of affairs in the Soviet Union. After being elected to the post of Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Yuri Vladimirovich announced that there were difficulties, but he did not have ready-made solutions. Corruption, theft, embezzlement, truancy have long ceased to be a secret behind seven seals, so he introduces a number of serious measures to strengthen labor discipline. The raids carried out during the working day in shops, cinemas, baths, cafes, hairdressing salons terrified the loitering, but all these actions did not diminish people's hopes for future positive changes in the country and did not shake the authority of the new Secretary General.

Listen to the sound guy, but do the opposite

The special talent of the olfactor lies in the ability to sense the thoughts of another person through his smells. They say that Andropov, living in Moscow on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in a multi-storey "general secretary house", never entered the elevator with the women, gallantly letting them go ahead and waiting for the elevator car to go down empty.

Smells, especially those of uncontrollably emotional skin-visual women, are the most disgusting thing that can exist for a person with a dominant olfactory vector. But it is the sense of smell that becomes the main tool for survival in the flock and preserving oneself in it, especially when surrounded by "well-wishers" who are ready every time to trip up the opponent so that he, flying down the stairs, would probably break his neck.

The top of the Brezhnev state apparatus looked absolutely precisely staffed, according to the main specific roles - as they are defined in the training "System-vector psychology" by Yuri Burlan.

The olfactory Andropov, brought into the party apparatus by the urethral Brezhnev, was balanced by the sound ideologist Suslov, who, judging by the memoirs of his contemporaries, was a narrow-minded and primitive person. The conflict between the "stargazer" and the "olfactory advisor" developed on the basis of dissent among the youth of the 70s. Andropov, distinguished by flexibility and special natural foresight, understood that the emergence of dissident organizations conducting subversive activities on the territory of the USSR could not simply be ignored and ignored, as Suslov did.

Yuri Vladimirovich's first conflict with the country's main ideologist arose back in 1953, long before the Hungarian events. Andropov was sent to Lithuania to collect dirt on the First Secretary of the Lithuanian Central Committee, Snechkus, for his subsequent removal from office. The Andropov Commission, having carried out an inspection, assessed the work of the Lithuanian Party organization "positively". The discontent of Suslov, who was then at a higher level than Andropov, knew no bounds with such a turn of the matter and forever separated the party comrades on opposite sides of the leader.

Why did Yuri Vladimirovich need to shield the Lithuanian secretary? Then, it was unknown how this withdrawal could have ended for Lithuania. Snechkus Antanas Juozovich has been an absolute Stalinist nomenklatura unit since 1940. During the war, he headed the republican headquarters of the partisan movement. "Cadres decide everything," said olfactory Stalin, giving regional managers freedom of action, but also asking them harshly.

Nobody knew what a dark horse the new candidate for the post of First Secretary of the Lithuanian Central Committee could be. No one, except Andropov, thought that the risk of such a personnel reshuffle for small Lithuania, in the swamps of which the traces of the “forest brothers” have not yet cooled, would be too great (note: “forest brothers” is the unofficial name of armed nationalist groups that operated in the 1940-1950s on the territory of the Baltic republics of the USSR - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, who opposed the Soviet regime, for the restoration of the state independence of these republics).

If the natural task of the urethralist includes the expansion of new territories and consolidation, then for the olfactory person the main thing is to preserve new territories and people on them, to ensure the survival of their flock. It is possible to save the people only when it is known what they are talking about and what they are thinking, how they are, when there is an understanding of their psychology, and most importantly, their desires.

Natural instinct and the Hungarian syndrome will permanently consolidate in him the habit of carefully and attentively treating dissenting intelligentsia. Having occupied in 1967, at the suggestion of Leonid Brezhnev, the main post in the KGB, which most accurately corresponded to the natural species role of the olfactor, Andropov raised the quality of the work of his employees, who felt themselves in a humiliating position after the death of Stalin and Khrushchev's hostility towards them.

The fifth directorate created by Andropov under the KGB of the USSR consisted entirely of fighters from the invisible front and was responsible for counterintelligence work to combat the ideological sabotage of the enemy, especially if he was on his territory.

Looking back, one can only guess what the Soviet Union could have become if Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov had lived the five years given to him by Academician Chazov. It is quite possible that thanks to the olfactory sagacity of its secretary general, the USSR would have managed to fit into a sharp turn of global changes without losing its republics and preserving the health and lives of its citizens. However, history does not know the subjunctive mood …