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Medvedev offers some compelling particulars. In early 1982, he says, Andropov ordered the KGB to arrest two close friends of Brezhnev's daughter Galina for diamond smuggling. News of the arrests was leaked to the Western press, and Galina was dispatched to the Kremlin hospital, supposedly because of a "nervous breakdown." According to the author, Brezhnev's doubly distraught daughter attended her father's funeral in the company of two well-dressed secret policemen, who appeared to be members of the family. The funeral was televised live, Medvedev explains, and the KGB was afraid that Galina might...
...Moscow will lie at your feet," as a gaggle of diplomats listened with fascination. In spite of his flirtatious ways, he enjoyed a stable relationship with his wife Victoria, and he doted on his three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Son Yuri is a foreign trade official, and Daughter Galina is married to a high Ministry of Interior official...
...brief formal tribute, Andropov led the Politburo members toward the dead man's family. He bent over and kissed Brezhnev's widow Victoria, 75, through her veil. She lifted a hand to her cheek to wipe away tears. Andropov bent to kiss her again, then kissed Brezhnev's daughter Galina. Kirilenko, a leading contender for the succession until sidelined in the past year, burst into tears as he spoke to Brezhnev's widow...
Brezhnev's condition may have been aggravated by several developments in recent months. One was the shock of the death in January of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, a longtime associate. Shortly thereafter, Brezhnev's daughter Galina was indirectly linked to a scandal involving a singer whom she had befriended...
...gossip linking Galina with Boris seemed credible because of her longtime association with Soviet entertainers. She was once married to a circus strongman and animal trainer. Galina is also rumored to have been friendly with the head of the Soviet State Circus, Anatoli Kolevatov, who is being investigated for extorting bribes from performers. Diamonds and foreign currency worth more than $1 million were reportedly found in Kolevatov's Moscow apartment...