- 10 Aug 2004 11:20
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Yuri Andropov took power in 1983 after Brezhnev's death. Unlike Politburo members like Chernenko who were very conservative in their ways and did not wish for any change in the Soviet system, Andropov realised that change was needed if the Soviet Economy would had to be kept at alarge.
Andropov started out by changing nearly all the Interior Ministry, sacking and changing Politburo officials and made Gorbachev, Ligachev and Ryzhkov Central Committe Secretaries. He begun an Anti-Curroption campaing and discipline at work increased, sacked workers who were absent from their work and increased discipline in the streets. On July 1983 he passed a decree letting industrial associations more autonomy in their work to increase production.
One of his most galantly deeds was that in Februaury in 1983 he visisted a Moscow lathe-making factory and held some conversations with the workers. This was rarely done in the past leaderships.
Andropov like the heroic Gorbachev realised that the Soviet Union was not the workers haven drawn by Stalin. He realised that reforms where needed to keep the Soviet Union exisisting and so he worked for reforms. Unfortunatley he died quickly and a conservative succedded him (Chernenko). But the soon arrival of Gorbahcev promised that the Soviet Union would still be saved by his reforms. Unfortanetly events went against him, and against the people.
Napuljun
Andropov started out by changing nearly all the Interior Ministry, sacking and changing Politburo officials and made Gorbachev, Ligachev and Ryzhkov Central Committe Secretaries. He begun an Anti-Curroption campaing and discipline at work increased, sacked workers who were absent from their work and increased discipline in the streets. On July 1983 he passed a decree letting industrial associations more autonomy in their work to increase production.
One of his most galantly deeds was that in Februaury in 1983 he visisted a Moscow lathe-making factory and held some conversations with the workers. This was rarely done in the past leaderships.
Andropov like the heroic Gorbachev realised that the Soviet Union was not the workers haven drawn by Stalin. He realised that reforms where needed to keep the Soviet Union exisisting and so he worked for reforms. Unfortunatley he died quickly and a conservative succedded him (Chernenko). But the soon arrival of Gorbahcev promised that the Soviet Union would still be saved by his reforms. Unfortanetly events went against him, and against the people.
Napuljun