The new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, had been head of the secret police and kept dossiers on Galina and her friends.

ECONOMIST: Galina Brezhneva

The main protagonists were Ronald Reagan and the Western alliance he led on the one hand and Yuri Andropov's KGB-led Soviet Union on the other.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Putin's 'do-over'

This may be the most important of these meetings since 1983, when the NATO alliance was confronting strenuous opposition from the last KGB thug to run the Kremlin Yuri Andropov to the American-underwritten plan to deploy Pershing II and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in five West European countries.

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