When I was there in 1983, they were plenty scary. Maybe pikers next to Stalin, but the former head of the KGB was no slouch in the "this close to nuclear war" competition.
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Yeah, I wouldn't say it in the sense that his scholarship lacks value. But as an ideologue - and in ways that meaningfully impinged on his scholarship - he had mostly, close to universally bad qualities.
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But he wasn't a scholar of the USSR. It's possible that Andropov could have squeezed a few more miles out of things by sheer force. (Anti-drinking, etc.) But he also came from the paranoid wing of the KGB and didn't understand the world he was dealing with by 1982.
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