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...promotion of Andropov, says a Western diplomat in Moscow, shows that "he has a lot of support in the army, the Foreign Ministry and the party." According to Hyland, the Central Committee may have given Andropov some of the vast policymaking powers that were long held by Mikhail Suslov, the party ideologist whose authority was second only to Brezhnev's until Suslov's death last January. A Soviet historian agrees: "Andropov is definitely...
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...
...real drama may be more offstage than on. Rumors have been circulating that Thus We Will Win was the object of an ideological tug-of-war in the Politburo. Party Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, a hard-liner who died last January, is believed to have done his best to block the production, while Brezhnev Protege Konstantin Chernenko apparently intervened to save the play. As if to dispel any notion that the leadership was divided in its feelings, virtually the entire top rung of the Politburo, including Brezhnev, showed up for a performance early last month. In what may be the start...
...informers, once discovered, were spirited out of the country along with their families-but not before they had disclosed Moscow's hand in the martial-law crackdown. Reagan has followed the cabled details of Leonid Brezhnev's tears and grief after the recent death of Mikhail Suslov, the hard-line ideologue of the Politburo. Some of those secret reports tell of instant "personality changes" of high Soviet diplomats when they were informed of Suslov's demise. Those diplomats grew distant, their minds back in Moscow, as they worriedly waited for the changes that inevitably follow any unexpected...
According to reliable sources, Suslov had ordered KGB General Semyon Tsvigun to halt the investigations in an effort to shield Brezhnev. Thwarted and angry, Tsvigun is said to have killed himself. Following Suslov's death, the KGB resumed its inquiries and the scandals exploded...