konstantin chernenko

Leonid Brezhnev's health problems were evident to all those who were close to him, and in the politburo. In 1981, apparently most in the central committee had realised that the general secretary didn't have long to live, and were looking for a successor. As we all know, IOTL the position went to...

Leonid Brezhnev was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964-1984. During his leadership, the liberalisation policies of Khruschev were reversed. The USSR entered a period of social, cultural, and political repression which, while not on the scale of Stalin, was...