<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="USSR">USSR</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" id="mwARw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a> becomes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General Secretary</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party's Central Committee</a>, succeeding <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_I._Brezhnev" id="mwAR8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leonid I. Brezhnev">Leonid I. Brezhnev</a>.