the most eccentric andropov is the american musician glen miller.dent of the united states. the media spoke very well of him. one washington post article said he loved jazz, jokes and anecdotes about the problems of communism, he danced, he was humane, although all these statements by the western press had no basis, the image of a very good person was created. when for our book we interviewed people who knew andropov in hungary, they said that this was nonsense, but the year of andropovo’s reign was remembered by ordinary people not for these myths that shrouded the general secretary, but for the prose of life, catching truants in cinemas and shops, during the day employees in civilian clothes checked the documents and asked why not on worker... together again, reality prosaically threw out all the ideal thoughts. this weakness of the system was noticeable even to a schoolboy in 1983. even i remember how, at the exit from this cinema on the northern outskirts of moscow, two people in plain clothes stood and checked the documents of everyone who came