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Petty soon realizes that there will be problems even after the nuclear war has taken place. What about the inevitable post-nuclear invasion of Soviet troops? Since Soviet leader Yuri Andropov never responded to his invitation to visit Cherry Drive and sign a treaty, Petty decides to fortify his house and garden against such an invasion. But the bank promptly denies the pair a loan to purchase the necessary hardware, forcing Petty and Roger to launch a fundraising drive for their tanks and aircraft. They ask Prince Charles to appear at a teatime piano concert featuring one of their neighbors...
Unlike the words of Chernenko and Yuri v. Andropov neither the new leader's autobiography nor his collected speeches appear to have been published in their English or Russian and Gorbachev is too young have mattered back before World War II, when reality was not completely filtered though the ideological scrubbers...
BUTSON IS ALSO left source less and clueless when it comes to accounting for Gorbachev's actions during the reform days of Andropos's brief rule, when Gorbachev's presumably was in sync with the prevailing root--out bourgeois-corruption atmosphere. The high point of this brief period was Andropov's purge of corrupt Brezhnelackeys, who were to upright bureaucracy what Massachusetts State House politics are to democratic government...
...What do Andropov's purges say about Gorbachev...
Since Stalin, only Khruschey gave any hint that he could attempt: o back way from Stalinism's monomanic pursuit of the ultimate, indestructible state. Brezhnes firmly dedicated himself to the status quo, and one doubts that Andropov and Chernenko were ever more than a bad artist's conception. of the Soviet state and his brutal, but failed, attempt to impose socialism by force...