on one platform, four general secretaries of leonid brezhnev in succession, yuri andropov, konstantin chernenkoikhail gorbachev, the latter were then still a modest leader. stavropol, a significant meeting was backstage with directed by andropov in order to arrange a bride for mikhail gorbachev, who soon arrived from stavropol to moscow to climb to the very top. after andropov's death in february 1984, gorbachev was not able to immediately lead the party; his completely andropov undergrowth was pushed aside by the more experienced grouping of konstantin chernenko and nikolai tikhonov . 1985, mikhail gorbachev headed the cpsu and the soviet union , long-overdue deep transformations were already late, at least 10 years, nevertheless the first years of perestroika. basically gone. for gorbachev, this activity was useful in itself for trips around the country and foreign contacts, but not in the conditions of a systemic crisis , the depth, which the ruling communist party did not immediately realize in its last decade , the ussr quickly sank into a quagmire of international debts up to 198. the thi