The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1982 (5. évfolyam, 4-6. szám)

1982-11-01 / 6. szám

BI-MONTHLY B 20435 ^ THE GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY (NEMZETŐR) v°L XXVI November-December, 1982 "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" Article 18 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Hungarian Uprising and KGB How Andropov Rose to the Top r|'he turning-point in the career of Yuri * Andropov, the new Soviet party leader, was in October-November, 1956, when, as Ambassador in Budapest, he played a key role in the USSR’s suppression of the Hun­garian uprising. From then he was destined for high office, and he became successively the protégé of the two previous leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. Yuri Andropov speeking on Lenin’s birthday Invading Soviet troops in Budapest on November 4, 1956, called in by Soviet Ambassa dor Andropov CONTENTS: Massive Campaign Precedes Annivers. 2-4 KGB isolates Peace Group 4 Power Seized - History Rewritten 5-6 Suicide after Torture in Romania 4 Sane Poles Forcibly ,Treated’ 7 Catholics Refuse To Be Police Spies 7 Invaders „Control Law-making" 8 Secret Police Praised at WPC Meeting 8 „Real (Soviet) Influence" in UNESCO 9 Chemical Weapons „near Frontier" 9 Party Criticises Health Service 10 Freed Poet To Write Book 11 In 1957 Andropov was recalled from Hun­gary and made head of an important com­mittee of the CPSU Central Committee re­sponsible for relations with other ruling com­munist parties. He himself became a member of the Central Committee in 1961 and was appointed one of its Secretaries in 1962 — a position in which he shared in the day-to-day running of the party bureaucracy. In May, 1967, he relinquished his Secre­tary’s post to become head (Chairman) of the Committee of State Security (KGB), the USSR’s secret police and main intelligence organisation. In the following month he joined the CPSU Politburo, the Soviet Union’s ruling body, as a candidate (non-voting) member. In April, 1973, he became a full member of the Politburo. In May, 1982, he gave up the KGB chair­manship which he had held for 15 years and again became a Secretary of the Central Committee. He took over the late Mikhail Suslov’s duties of overseeing the Kremlin’s thoroughgoing efforts to .ensure that ideolo­gical „purity“ is upheld not only within the ' Soviet bloc but also among communists out­side it (just before taking up this post he had denounced the „heresy“ of „Euro-com- 1 munism“). In the past year, particularly since May, : Andropov had been widely tipped (including by the Guardian of Liberty — see our May- June issue) as the most likely successor to the ailing, 75-year-old Brezhnev. Compared with past changes of party leaders, including Brezhnev’s ousting of Khrushchev in the 1964 palace revolution, (Continued on page 2)

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