Vremya News USSR Leader Yuri Andropov Funeral Программа время 14.02.1984

The memorial and funeral services of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, 14 February 1984. Andropov lead the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death on 9 February 1984. Andropov's rule is known for his anti corruption campaign. During his short rule Andropov aggressively attacked corruption throughout the CPSU and government ministries. He also campaigned to improve labor discipline and boost morale among the average Soviet worker. In 1983 Andropov invited a young American girl, Samantha Smith to visit the Soviet Union after she wrote him a concerned letter about nuclear war. Samantha became a well known peace activist until a plane crash took her life in 1985. Debate remains about weather Andropov could have reformed the USSR in a way that didn't lead to its collapse.
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[@riley1049]

3:58 Konstantin Chernenko, Andropov's successor. His term as leader was two months shorter than his predecessor, due to underlying health issues, including emphysema (he was a heavy smoker for 64 years, having started at age 9), heart issues, and cirrhosis of the liver. He died on March 10, 1985, aged 73.

[@isd8894]

Around the 18:00 mark -- poor Chernenko can barely even keep his hand up in a salute. It is so obvious from this footage how ill he really was.

[@riley1049]

1:54 Austrian Communist Party leader Franz Muhri 2:05 French Communist Party leader Georges Marchais 2:15 Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer 2:33 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 2:43 German Chancellor Helmut Kohl 2:53 United States of America Vice President George Bush 3:03 French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy 3:12 Great Britain Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 3:23 Italian President Alessandro Pertini

[@Vladius32itf]

Опа, и Тэтчер явилась. А в 1985 году она подписала с Яковлевым унизительную для СССР конвенцию...

[@kavehkk8440]

Очень жаль, это было лучшее время, в их голосе было умиротворение.

[@user-ef1wn9lz8j]

Длб, лучшее!?

[@DaplasticEdd]

2:54 us vice president George H W Bush

[@hjyigo4759]

Chernenko was already dying of emphysema at this point, and it shows.

[@dunnphuongg3883]

Chernenko like a old aged version of Brezhnev for sure.

[@clouds-rb9xt]

and heart failure

[@kurtfrancis4621]

Chernenko sounds short of breath almost from the beginning of his speech. No wonder he was dead within a year.

[@davejay2277]

Emphysema can knock you about if you have it, i should know.

[@RedSamurai84]

Lesson for the day: Don't ever smoke, or you'll end up like Kostya. Chernenko started smoking at age nine!

[@jeffreykalb9752]

Soviet Union on its last breaths...

[@suggsbomber7004]

RedSamurai84 what the heck{?

[@jonnnyren6245]

@@RedSamurai84 age NINE?! What in the hell Konstantin Ustinovich...

[@Ekaterinburg_1991]

В это же время орудийные залпы прозвучали в столицах союзных республик городах-героях Ленинграде Волгограде Одессе Севастополе Новороссийске Керчи Туле а также в Крепости-герое Бресте а также в городах Калининграде Львове Ростове-на-Дону Куйбышеве Свердловске Новосибирске Чите Хабаровске Владивостоке Североморске Днепропетровске Запорожье и Днепродзержинске на пять минут была остановлена работа всех предприятий и организаций СССР. Весь водный и железнодорожный транспорт, а также заводы и фабрики дали трёхминутный салют гудками.

[@knutholt3486]

Of all the prominent persons attending the funeral, Michael Gorbachov is one of the few still alive 34 years after in 2018.

[@tonyjohansson7567]

Well, he must have been at least 20-30 years younger than most of them...

[@johnlouised.garcia3375]

Nikolai Ryzhkov, Yegor Ligachev, and Vladimir Dolgikh are still alive and they are all older than Gorbachev.

[@fl596]

and its mikahil gorbachov not michael

[@99mrpogi]

@@fl596 mikhail is the Russian equivalent of Michael. He must have used the original English version

[@general4526]

@@johnlouised.garcia3375 Yegor Ligachev recently died so you can probably take him off the list

[@AradSP]

18:12 Chernenko can barely hold his hand up

[@poroshenkoukraina]

this is why you shouldn't smoke at 9

[@travellervideos2024]

At 2:36 How ironic that Indira Gandhi at Andropov's funeral, only to be assassinated 10 months later at 31 Oct 1984...I saw both news of both leaders death on TV when I was a kid

[@everythingisheresahil2283]

🙏RIP to both great leaders and also RIP to rest of the Great leaders who aren't here with us🙏

[@riley1049]

Enrico Berlinguer, the Italian Communist Party leader, died on June 11, 1984, nearly a month after turning 62, from complications of a stroke, four months after Andropov's funeral.

[@youtubesketches110]

Me too.

[@petrskripunov209]

Помню всех похороны а после и страну советов похоронили хорошие были времена молодым была дорога старикам почет я другой страны такой не знаю где так вольно дышит человек

[@kurtfrancis4621]

Looking at that line-up at 5 minutes and on Lenin's tomb, they look like a bunch of tired old men.

[@briank06261973]

The average age of those in the Politburo at the time was 70.

[@99mrpogi]

@@briank06261973 and they are all probably dead by now.

[@ryanissa3353]

@@99mrpogi Yup, all of them are dead except for Gorbachev who is turning 90 this march

[@chernovbrichtofen4767]

@@ryanissa3353 he’s dead now

[@ryanissa3353]

@@chernovbrichtofen4767 I know 😢

[@chadeli8271]

Seems Chernenko cannot breath smoothly when he's speaking. Just around one year before his death

[@davejay2277]

Chenyenko had Emphysema and Liver Cirrhosis at the time and was literally terminally ill from these maladies when he took office, and he was dead in 13 Months.

[@marguskiis7711]

Chernenko was about to die anyway and got the post for honorary meaning. Gorby was after YA by unofficial ranking.

[@ytuser2272]

Well he did started smoking when he was nine, so he was bound to have health problems down the line

[@briank06261973]

Gorbachev really should have succeeded Yuri Andropov as General Secretary. Andropov was even pushing for Gorbachev to succeed him, but the old guard installed Chernenko instead. Instead of getting a younger, healthy leader in Gorbachev, they got an old man who was terminally ill with emphysema, and was ineffective. Much of Chernenko's time in office was spent in the hospital. I was watching "Meeting Gorbachev" and they showed footage of Chernenko "standing" in his hospital room, in a suit, and his room was made into a makeshift polling place. If you look closely, you can see one of his henchmen holding him up from behind. They also showed footage of staged Politburo meetings to make it appear he was leading the country. So for thirteen months, the Soviet Union was without a leader.

[@Princess-im3wm]

But Gorbachev destroyed the USSR. If anything, one of the communist hardliners who wasn't dying of emphysema should have been chosen.

[@Aslaugarsson]

@@Princess-im3wm It was kinda Yeltsin snd US’s fault, Gorbi tried to save it

[@99mrpogi]

So yuri andropov died at age 69 and they chose an older 72-73 year old chernenko as the successor?

[@everythingisheresahil2283]

@@Aslaugarsson Yes man, Gorbachev tried his best to save the USSR

[@isd8894]

Gorbachev was a traitor who destroyed, willfully I believe, the greatest achievement of humanity -- the Soviet state. He should have been in prison, not in power. Which isn't to say that Chernenko was the optimal choice either...

[@sergey_abrosimov]

прикольные были гонки на лафетах,Черненко почти год ждал своих похорон

[@rubenbadalian29]

Andropov became the eight member of Brezhnev's Politburo to died on February 9, 1984 during the Soviet Political Plague of Brezhnev’s Politburo (1978/1980-1985) In which 11 members of Brezhnev’s Politburo died and 24 members had survived the political plague and they would later be apart of Gorbachev’s Politburo when he took power in 1985

[@riley1049]

With these Politburo guys, a bunch of them, including Brezhnev himself, were so old and so sick, they wouldn't live to see the next decade. Some did, including Gorbachev (died 2022). The only guy left is Nikolai Ryzhkov (born September 28, 1929), who turns 94 soon.

[@carlosmartinez399]

7:41 is it just me or even the song matches whit the dramatic moment when the flag is raised half way up

[@brianrunyon266]

A shame someone younger didn't take over for Andropov. Instead, they went with an old man who had various breathing ailments.

[@99mrpogi]

And to think that chernenko(72-73) is older than andropov(69). They could have at least selected someone younger to succeed brezhnev

[@ezefinkielman4672]

It was Andropov would brought in younger men to the politburo, one of them Gorbachev.

[@99mrpogi]

@@ezefinkielman4672 and Gorbachev is probably in his 50s back then

[@taran7728]

@@99mrpogi 50s for a president is a good age

[@dedeBasantas9941]

@@taran7728 General secretory not President

[@leafyutube]

This was just before Rocky went to Russia to fight Drago.

[@fakhrisaed2899]

فخامة الرئيس يوري اندروبوف

[@marguskiis7711]

The bury scene is not shown because Brezhnev scene looked and sounded notoriously bad.

[@kbst8411]

Diese hoch ritualisierten und immer nach dem gleichen Muster ablaufenden sowjetischen Beerdigungen faszinieren mich.

[@KJ-WNU-]

Chernenko was next

[@briank06261973]

Yep, thirteen months later.

[@karlchung]

19:57 Looks like a Chinese and North Korean military parade.

[@letroll4479]

Well those 2 countries got insprired by the soviet union

[@thenoobgamerboi69]

They just copied our great motherland

[@riley1049]

4:07 Chernenko, Aliyev, Vorotnikov, Gorbachev, Grishin, Gromyko, Kunayev, Romanov, Solomentsev, Tikhonov, Ustinov, Shcherbytsky, Demichev, Dolgikh, Kuznetsov, Ponomarev, Chebrikov, Shevardnadze, Zimyanev, Kapitonov, Ligachyov, Rusakov, Ryzhkov

[@brianrunyon266]

Can't believe after Andropov, they went with a guy who was a heavy smoker for years, and, as a result, had all sorts of difficulties breathing. He did next to nothing as leader with his health problems.

[@balazs8330]

He was just a compromise candidate. Everybody knew that he will soon die. Gorbachov needed a bit more time to get enough supporters in the politburo

[@Kalashnabash]

19:50-22:21 is possibly the longest non commentary period in any of the 1980’s parade

[@atharhazrianto1329]

Rip yuri vladimirovich

[@rcforb5255]

13:11 is nobody talking about how bad ustinov (on the left) looks? He died half a year later

[@ryanissa3353]

How does he look bad? yea he had health problems by this point but he didn't seem as unhealthy as chernenko.

[@Snowman13230]

Despite his age, Ustinov was full of energy and looked ok. Then he caught pneumonia...

[@KillerofWestoids]

@@Snowman13230 Listen to his speech in the 1982 november parade. At one point it looks as of he was going to collapse.

[@Snowman13230]

@@KillerofWestoids I'm not a big fan of all those commie leaders, but Ustinov was quite fit and bubbling with energy until he and several other defence ministers of the Soviet block misteriously caught pneumonia during military exercises at the same time and some of them died.

[@ssrv4gaminggrounds98]

38 years since his death.

[@hungryfareasternslav1823]

We came here because Chopin's funeral march....

[@nereanim]

Gorbi did pretty much a continuation of Andropov's work. In 1986 he got a report from the KGB, and unlike the FSB reports to Putin this one was accurate and well made, which basically said the USSR would collapse within 2-3 years due to lack of food and overall mismanagement on top of the war in Afghanistan bleeding 55 B a year. And Bzeszynski advised Reagan to make a pact with Saudi Arabia to collapse oil prices to like $6 a barrel, and this was the USSR's only way to get hard cash to pay for wheat and make up for the shortcomings of its agriculture. He had no choice but to start opening up and the rest is history...

[@HARWGful]

Desgraciadamente, Andropov, , llego tarde, a la dirección soviética , con mas tiempo al frente de la URSS, tal vez no se hubiera disuelto.

[@joaquinarpiani7737]

Que cosas buenas hizo andropov ?

[@HARWGful]

@@joaquinarpiani7737 el estaba combatiendo la corrupcion, que se presento, durante el largo periodo de Brezhnev, promovio a nuevos dirigentes, en el PCUS ( partido comunista de la URSS), como Gorbachov, durante este periodo, Ronald Reagan, realizo, diversas provocaciones, a los sovieticos, entre ellas, el ejercicio militar, en Europa Occidental , conocido como, Able Archer, que por poco, desata una guerra nuclear.

[@LeonidBrezhnev_1906]

Concuerdo con usted camarada

[@JJMHigner]

Im actually one of the relatively few people born during this man's brief reign. At this point it was only a matter of time till the old USSR would similarly keel over.

[@thunderbird1921]

The Soviet Union was definitely on the decline, but Chernobyl many say is what truly doomed it, along with rising nationalism in Europe and other factors. It can be argued that Andropov's death helped accelerate the downfall, as he was supposed to be the guy who would guide the transition of leadership to the next generation, preferably a younger hardliner. Instead he croaked at just 69 years old and before the USSR's future was set up. Of course, it gave America another reason to party in 1984, as the Soviets would be less belligerent for the near future.

[@tennisguyky]

Chernenko was a joke. He couldn’t even barely speak and was clearly on death’s door. He accomplished nothing, the old guard should have gone with Tikonov if they wanted a status quo figurehead that at least seemed to not have a foot in the grave. Chernenko was so feeble and inept it was laughable. They just postponed the inevitable however, as Gorbachev was destined to take over after Chernenko’s death. Andropov wanted Gorbachev to succeed him. And he did anyway a year later.

[@Snowman13230]

Tikhonov was almost 79 at the time, kinda too old...

[@dedeBasantas9941]

Old guard should have gone with D.F.Ustinov

[@ytuser2272]

@@dedeBasantas9941 Yet he died a couple of months after Andropov

[@nrz4000paronmen]

​@@Snowman13230yet he survived the collapse of USSR and died in 1997

[@Snowman13230]

@@nrz4000paronmen yes, but who could know that then? Electing a 78-year old after two elderly leaders have just died..? Tikhonov would have refused anyway

[@windiamigo5312]

3:11 Margaret Thatcher!

[@redstudio1936]

Tohle se nikdy nemělo stát! Andropov byl 100% lepší než Gorbačov!

[@nailitdown219]

Look what happens when you have health problems.

[@user-mj3gn5wm5c]

6:00 funeral march 10:04 speeches 16:26 funeral march again 17:57 USSR anthem + factories whistle, train horn and siren salute 19:14 memorial parade

[@chazzcannon3614]

Had the USSR been capitalist at the time, florists would have made a fortune.

[@Jb-so8qi]

Iv had emphysema since birth I have difficulty breathing from exercise or altitude. Hes just talking and struggling should have put down the smokes!

[@jasonzhao312]

Can somebody tell me what the BGM is during the funeral? thanks

[@TheMrpeejoe]

Chopin Sonata 2 Op 39

[@jasonzhao312]

@@TheMrpeejoe Thank u so much

[@oscarng4515]

4:02 Gorbachev ???

[@1carlosmmc]

oscar ng yes

[@marguskiis7711]

oscar ng Gorby was planned to get power after A but someway Chernenko was put on post first.

[@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823]

Starting 1:35, what is the orchestra playing? I think they played the same when Breshnev lied there.

[@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823]

@LANDEN TEEL - STUDENT me too.

[@everythingisheresahil2283]

Who is he at the left side of Chernenko(right side of our screens') at 17:33 ?

[@stephencarmelo6741]

Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko

[@everythingisheresahil2283]

@@stephencarmelo6741 Oh thank you ! but what's the name of the other leader beside Chernenko and Gromyko,the one who is on the right side of the screen

[@stephencarmelo6741]

@@everythingisheresahil2283 I don't think there is anyone else to the left of Chernenko other than Gromyko; if you mean Chernenko's right (left side from our view), then that would be Premier Nikolai Tikhonov.

[@everythingisheresahil2283]

@@stephencarmelo6741 Oh yep got it, Thanks for your help man !😁😁😁😁Much appreciated! Finally I now got know both of their names 😁😁

[@stephencarmelo6741]

@@everythingisheresahil2283 You are welcome!

[@paulbrennan5646]

Can anyone please tell me the march being played at 16:26? Thanks.

[@aolid7578]

Chopin funeral march

[@paulbrennan5646]

@@aolid7578 Dear Aolid: Please forgive my late response thanks for the help.

[@aolid7578]

@@paulbrennan5646 np dude

[@PatreonPreviewsofVictorTanzig]

They made sure that the cameras didnt show the body up close, compared to Brezhnev I swear if his funeral footage was upscaled to 4K we could see how shoddy the embalming was

[@valentinsorin7874]

🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@shoh1149]

19:14 what's the name of that theme?

[@interkast3040]

In Defense of the Motherland (В Защиту Родина)

[@KillerofWestoids]

In defence of the motherland

[@chrisdelano353]

Survey done.

[@valentinsorin7874]

URSS Love❤️❤️❤️🙏🤗🤗

[@TheAnnoyedHumanist]

Too bad Andropov died, he would've been the one to save the USSR, if only he had taken power earlier and lived for longer, the world would be much different now

[@thefreelich4875]

Andropov was dogshit lmao

[@kishoretiwari8141]

Very true. He was a hardliner and didn't hesitate in using force if necessary keeping kgb ethics.

[@kktay4135]

Where is the place where the soviet leaders bodies wwre put to let the public see for the funeral at?

[@ObjektifGenc]

9:25 march name?

[@30ahornalle]

It is the funeral march by chopin

[@ObjektifGenc]

@@30ahornalle Thank you very much bro.

[@30ahornalle]

Youre welcome glad that i could help

[@TheMrpeejoe]

Chopin Sonata 2 Op 39

[@sviat9729]

It's comical how the funerals of Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko were exactly the same, only the person in the enlarged photos was changed. It was becoming a biannual routine. The crowds and military units standing on the Red Square probably had their assigned place by the last funerals. Only difference was with Andropov's funeral when quite a few non communist foreign heads of state attended. Also the women in the family entourage behind the casket wore nice fur stoles where in other funerals the women came less dressed less fancily. Otherwise everything was repeated exactly to the movement of the procession and every turn that was made. Even the speeches repeated the same themes of serving the party and people. Innovation and originality came to be almost unknown phenomena in the Soviet Union. It was very ignorant for the western leaders to attend the funeral of a dictator that crushed the Hungarian Revolution in blood, tried to crush the dissident movement as head of the KGB with mass arrests and torture in concentration camps, and efforts to undermine the West. The tale of his fondness for jazz and western things was pure fiction. The man was expecting the fall of the capitalist system any day then and hated us so fanatically.

[@rebekahjensen1575]

Best enemy we ever had! Rest in peace andropov

[@clouds-rb9xt]

Your comment contradicts itself

[@antoniosilvestro9045]

Andropov was a great patriot. It would have been his birthday in 2 days time. Born June 15th 1914

[@ytuser2272]

Name of funeral song that played at 1:35

[@andrea-isella]

"Vocalise op.34 no.14" by Rachmaninov

[@ytuser2272]

@@andrea-isella Thanks

[@emmanuelescobar4642]

Who is the composer of this orchestral work? is beautiful

[@aolid7578]

Same with brszhnevs funeral

[@andrea-isella]

"Vocalise op.34 no.14" by Rachmaninov

[@mustafakamalsaikia1359]

2:23 is it Alexander lukashenko

[@hozonkai9967]

Probably not, because it's the Italian delegation. But, General Secretary Enrico Berlinguer would die less than 4 months later.

[@karlchung]

And Lukashenko was fatter than him.

[@andrea-isella]

He is Massimo D'Alema, former member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), served even as PM in 1998-2000.

[@alimehmetyaman8992]

Former Ussr Leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov(1914-1984)

[@OfficialMokena1999]

2:36 czy to lewo jest Wojciech Jaruzelski?

[@ukasz4886]

Nie.

[@marshalondro9692]

Not anymore

[@gabrielareyesvilla7409]

10:04-16:23

[@aolid7578]

19:14

[@captjimmie]

2:15 Is that a young Putin? Far left in green uniform?

[@malikcavadzade7869]

4:20 Azerbaijan national leader Aliyev🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿

[@imshi1577]

6:52 Arrival of the coffin

[@TraincraftmcOficial]

3:59 konstantin chernenko and Mijaíl Gorbachov

[@imshi1577]

9:02 the coffin arrived

[@mariaandronache1276]

22:20❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@seancedrickatienza3900]

Chopin funeral march

[@imshi1577]

16:34 burial of yuri Andropov

[@CBM1979]

El fin de la URSS...

[@theflyinggasmask]

17:20 anyone know what the song is called?

[@ryanissa3353]

funeral march by chopin

[@TheMrpeejoe]

@@ryanissa3353 wrong its Chopin Sonata 2 op 39 be specific next time

[@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823]

@@TheMrpeejoe It is op 35. Please be specific by yourself.

[@TheMrpeejoe]

@@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823 would you shut the hell up I DONT GIVE A DAMN

[@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823]

@@TheMrpeejoe Like everybody else when YOU say something. And even then it is wrong.

[@augeauge6227]

UDSSR heißt das nicht USSR. Immer Genau bleiben. 😊

[@user-ge3we5pq2n]

На всю жизнь запомню, как мой дед сказал: Андропов хороший был мужик, не то что меченый пришёл и всё испортил

[@user-qn1zt7lf1z]

Пи дар - Андропов

[@KJ-WNU-]

Please mute the narrator, I want to hear the anthem

[@30ahornalle]

It is the funeral march by chopin

[@NeutronRob]

When President Reagan was asked by the press when he would go to Moscow and meet with Soviet leaders, he replied, "I plan to, but they keep dying off...." 🤣

[@CNT9760]

What Is NO ALьГИЯ

[@brucetharpe762]

5:59 -16:25

[@trankt54155]

Looking at the faces of EVIL...

[@thunderbird1921]

True. It was disgusting to see that this man (Andropov) got so many honors after suppressing Hungary and Afghanistan brutally over the course of his career, and then allowing the Soviet military to murder the passengers of that South Korean airliner. Not sure why Thatcher and other notables attended it. He was arguably worse morally than Brezhnev.

[@chernovbrichtofen4767]

@@thunderbird1921 the South Korean plane incident was an accident on both sides

[@fockyouallandropovisthebes5169]

Brezhnev ruined everything

[@chernovbrichtofen4767]

Gorby and Yeltsin too

[@kishoretiwari8141]

Gorbe majorly.

[@elsieabaobaliling9896]

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[@HardRockMark]

Ah yes. Soviet news footage of the ceremony marking when Yuri Andropov finally became a good communist.

[@robertmcleod7841]

This is like Fox news at Donald Trump's funeral

[@DiegoCanizo]

I can help you understand History better. For free.

[@TheMrpeejoe]

Xaxaxa

[@Frenches83]

Soon we will see the Biden ´ s funeral

[@fockyouallandropovisthebes5169]

The greatest man in the soviet union after homosexual brezhnev

[@alexiscorcino8769]

But you became the second secretary before Leonid Brezhnev died

[@LeonidBrezhnev_1906]

🤔

[@user-bf5mh3de9g]

ХАТЫНЬ В БЕРЛИНЕ ЛОНДОНЕ БУДЕТ .