Andropov - Control of the People Flashcards

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Aims

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Severely ill and often invisible to the public.
Sought to improve economy with current framework.
Sought to reduce political meddling.

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Methods

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Tough discipline/punishment for lazy workers + incompetent/corrupt managers & bureaucrats.
Anti-Corruption - investigated senior Party officials- Brezhnev’s Minister of Interior (Nikolai Schelokov).

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Secret Police

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Suppressed dissidents through emigration.
Dissidents sent to psychiatric institutions for “treatment”.

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