939. Е.Ю. Спицын: Брежнев ставит шах Андропову: смертельная партия старого гроссмейстера

Episode 939. November 2, 2022. "Brezhnev Checkmates Andropov: The Old Grandmaster's Deadly Game." Why did the death of the CPSU's eminence grise, M. A. Suslov, lead to a sharp escalation in the struggle between the ruling clans? Could Brezhnev have called Andropov "Yurka" and forgiven the death of his friend, General Tsvigun? Why were the memoirs of witnesses to those events altered to favor Yu. V. Andropov? Why do modern historians consider Andropov's transfer to the CPSU Central Committee an honorable disgrace? Why did Academician Arbatov and M. S. Gorbachev tell tall tales in their memoirs in favor of Andropov? How intensively did L. I. Brezhnev work in the last months of his life? How did Brezhnev break his collarbone during a visit to Tashkent? Why was it so important for him to resolve issues of the future of Soviet-Indian and Soviet-Chinese relations in Tashkent? How did Brezhnev announce Gorbachev's "Food Program"? Why was the court physician, Academician Chazov, appointed to the CPSU Central Committee? About the career leap of the Chairman of the KGB of Ukraine. Fedorchuk, about Brezhnev's secret flight to the leader of Soviet Ukraine, Shcherbitsky, in Kyiv, why Brezhnev wanted Shcherbitsky as his successor, how Shcherbitsky's Kyiv communists were supposed to strengthen Brezhnev's Dnepropetrovsk communists in the Kremlin, how Brezhnev masterfully exploited V.V. Shchelokov's hatred of Yu.V. Andropov, what honorable disgrace Brezhnev arranged for Andropov, what retaliatory blow Andropov struck at the most trusted people from the "Brezhnev special forces" in the CPSU Central Committee, what instructions Andropov gave his "court" academics for counterattacks against Brezhnev—watch and listen to the continuation of our political detective story "The Brezhnev Party" about the fierce political struggle between Brezhnev and Andropov. Evgeny Yuryevich Spitsyn, historian and author of the series, is a guest at the Russian Radio University. The episode will premiere on November 2, 2022.