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Andropov was the son of a railway official. Both his parents died early and he went to work at the age of 14. He was educated at the Rybinsk Water Transport Technical College before he joined Komsomol in 1930. He became a member of the CPSU in 1939 and was first secretary of the Komsomol in the Soviet Karelo-Finnish Republic from 1940 to 1944. During World War II, Andropov took part in partisan guerrilla activities. After the War, he moved to Moscow in 1951 and joined the party secretariat. In 1954, he became the Soviet Ambassador to Hungary. Andropov was one of those responsible for the Soviet decision to invade Hungary during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
How to say "Yuri Andropov" in other languages:
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(Chinese) | 尤里•安德罗波夫 |
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(Japanese) | ユーリ・アンドロポフ |
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(German) | Juri Wladimirowitsch Andropow |
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(Spanish) | Yuri Andrópov |
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(French) | Iouri Andropov |
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(Italian) | Jurij Andropov |
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