from the explanatory note of yuri andropov. 1939 my mother was taken into the flickenstein family asein himself was a watchmaker and had a watch workshop. in 1915 , during the jewish pogrom, his workshop was destroyed, he himself died, fleckenstein’s wife lived and worked in moscow, and was not deprived of her voting rights. how did it happen that i didn’t know that my grandfather was a merchant of the second guild? i don’t know about this now, but i made attempts to find out. flickenstein herself in 1937, when i took a document from her, a certificate of non-deprivation of rights, nothing to me about the merchants. for the first time in the history of the ussr, it was not known what exactly general secretary did during the war, only it is vaguely said that he organized the partisan movement in karelia. yuri andropov was born at the nagutskoye station in the stavropol region. there is also very little information about his childhood, he himself admits this in that very note; the official biography begins with his studies in completely different lands. at the rybensky technical school