Chernenko
Britishnoun
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Brezhnev died in 1982, and relations withered under successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, who were in ill health and died after less than 15 months in office.
From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 2022
March 11, 1985: Appointed as general secretary of the Communist Party and the nation’s new leader following the death of Konstantin Chernenko.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022
Chernenko had died of a heart ailment and complications from emphysema.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022
Only when Chernenko died after barely a year in office did the younger man's reforming ambitions win out.
From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022
One historian called Chernenko "an enfeebled geriatric so zombie-like as to be beyond assessing intelligence reports, alarming or not."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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