In what year did Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar and Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov die?
Yuri Andropov a disease, lack of medical care, etc. Yuri Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (; ; – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Following the 18-year rule of Leonid Brezhnev, Andropov served in the post for only 15 months, from November 1982 until his death in February 1984. Earlier in his career, Andropov served as the Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, during which time he was involved in the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, and then Chairman of the KGB from 1967 until 1982.
Yuri Andropov Gamsakhurdia, Alexander Ginzburg, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Pyotr Grigorenko, Anatoly Shcharansky, and others. According to Soviet dissident Yuri Glazov, Andropov was a paradigmatic "Homo Sovieticus" and personally conducted disinformation campaigns against his main opponents and dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. According to Natalya Gorbanevskaya, now for some reason, we usually say that after Andropov's coming to power dissident movement went into decline, as if it itself went into decline. The movement did not go into decline but was strangled. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, repression was most severe, a lot of people were picked up for a second time,