A hallmark of the late Soviet period was that no one actually knew who was running the country. Leonid Brezhnev, who supposedly ordered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, could barely speak in public. There was a concerted effort by the Politburo to hide his decline, to the extent that they could. By the final few years, it was clear that Brezhnev wasn’t actually making any decisions at all. Then, when Brezhnev finally died in 1982, he was replaced with Yuri Andropov — who, from the moment he took office, was suffering from severe kidney failure that often led to his complete incapacitation. Of course, that fact wasn’t disclosed to anyone at the time. But after Andropov died a little over a year into his term, the Soviets released medical files revealing he had been on dialysis practically the whole time he was in office. At that point, Andropov was replaced by someone named…
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