Konstantin Chernenko’s Soviet Presidency
- Title
- Konstantin Chernenko’s Soviet Presidency
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Music
- TX Date
- Mar 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:01:59
- Description
- A review of the career of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Konstantin Chernenko, after his death. Includes speech by Chernenko at previous President Yuri Andropov’s funeral; sombre music on Moscow Radio after the death. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Konstantin Chernenko; Moscow Radio
- Keywords
- Deaths; USSR; Political reform; Presidents; Yuri Andropov; Konstantin Chernenko; Political leaders; Economic reform
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