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Chapter One Hundred and Four
"Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary-General of the USSR, has passed..."
-John Chancellor (1982)
"It was supposed to be an easy transition for [Yuri] Andropov. He was the KGB Chairman, after all. He was going to address the Politburo, but he was looking flushed and started complaining about pains. Eventually, he couldn't get up, so he was hospitalized. Officially, of course, he simply had 'personal matters' he needed to resolve. In came [Pyotr] Demichev."