<prompt> Qedela umusho olandelayo: Lapho u-Yuri Andropov engena esikhundleni sikaLeonid Brezhnev njengomholi weSoviet Union ngo-November 1982, amaphephandaba namamagazini aseNtshonalanga avelele ashicilela izithombe nezihloko eziningi ezikhuluma ngaye ekhasini lokuqala. Okuningi kwalokhu kwaziswa kwakungekuhle futhi kwakunikeza umbono wosongo olusha ekuzinzeni kwezwe laseNtshonalanga. U-Andropov wayeyiNxusa laseSoviet eHungary ngesikhathi seNguquko yaseHungary yango-1956 futhi enguSihlalo we-KGB kusukela ngo-1967 kuya ku-1982; ngesikhathi esebenza, wayaziwa eNtshonalanga  <response>: ukuchoboza iPrague Spring nokucindezelwa ngonya kwabaphikisi, abanjengoAndrei Sakharov no-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Waqala ukuba umholi waseSoviet ngokuqinisa amandla e-KGB, nangokucindezela abaphikisi. Ngokusho kukaVasili Mitrokhin, u-Andropov wayebona umzabalazo wamalungelo abantu njengengxenye yecebo elibanzi lobukhosi lokucekela phansi isisekelo sombuso waseSoviet. Kwakunokungezwani okukhulu phakathi kwamazwe ngamazwe ngemizamo yamaSoviet neyaseMelika yokwakha izikhali ezazingase ziqalwe kusathelayithi esendleleni. Womabili la mazwe ayenohlelo olubanzi lokucwaninga nokuthuthukisa ukuze athuthukise lobu buchwepheshe. Nokho, zombili lezi zizwe zazicindezelwa kakhulu ukuba ziwuchithe lo msebenzi. EMelika, uMongameli uRonald Reagan wacindezelwa iqembu lososayensi base-U.S. kanye nochwepheshe bezikhali, kuyilapho eSoviet Union uhulumeni wakhipha isitatimende esithi, Ukuvimbela ukwenziwa kwezikhali emkhathini kungenye yemisebenzi ephuthuma kakhulu isintu esibhekene nayo. 