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Leonid Brezhnev was the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Who succeeded him when he died of a heart attack?

Correct answer: B. Yuri Andropov

  • A. Nikita Khrushchev
  • B. Yuri Andropov
  • C. Konstantin Chernenko
  • D. Mikhail Gorbachev

Explanation

Yuri Andropov succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader in November 1982 after Brezhnev's death. Konstantin Chernenko followed Andropov, while Gorbachev became leader in 1985.

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