Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chenenko and the Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev

Russian Rulers History Podcast

Mark Schauss

History, Putin, Ussr, Usa, War, Tsar, Belarus, Arts, Revolution, Social Sciences, Ukraine, Science, Crimea, Russia, Soviet

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🗓️ 28 October 2012

⏱️ 26 minutes

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After Brezhnev's death, two more Soviet leaders would die in quick succession which would lead to the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/support

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0:00.0	The Yes, yes, sir,
0:14.0	or us, if yes sure us.
0:18.0	We're you again,
0:20.0	again,
0:22.0	we're you again. Welcome to the Russian rulers history podcast episode 104
0:31.0	Yuri and drop-, Constantine Chernenko, and the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev.
0:37.0	Last time we covered the era of stagnation and the end of the corrupt rule of Leonet Breshmef.
0:45.4	Now we begin the home stretch of Russian Soviet leaders as we're down to our last five men.
0:52.2	Andropov Chernenko, Gorachov, Yeltsin, and Putin.
0:57.0	Now, some of you out there might be saying, hey, wait a minute, what about Medvedev?
1:02.0	Well, I'm going to undoubtedly mention him. He really
1:06.1	wasn't the true boss. But I'm getting ahead of myself. One of the things I'd like to also clean
1:12.1	up here on our podcast is I made a promise that I'd give you an overdrive version of the podcast every other week,
1:20.0	but life happens and it just didn't happen this past week.
1:25.0	But I'm going to give you two this week to make up for it.
1:28.0	And one was a suggestion made by Logan, one of our Facebook friends at the Russian
1:32.4	rulers history podcast. Logan, one of our Facebook friends at the Russian Worlders History Podcast.
1:34.7	And Logan asked if we could maybe do something for Halloween.
1:38.4	Now, since we have a very international crowd of listeners here, some of you may not know Halloween is celebrated on
1:46.0	October 31st. And I will be doing a reading of a story from Russian history little bit to do with the
1:55.0	story that has a little bit to do with the devil so kind of
1:59.3	apropos for Halloween so I hope you'll be going to enjoy that.
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