@Renauda May Find this Interesting
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/18/dusko-doder-post-journalist-dies/
He sensed something was amiss on a February night in 1984, when state radio canceled a jazz program and broadcast somber classical music. He noticed also that the lights at the Defense Ministry and the Soviet secret police, the KGB, were blazing at hours when their offices were often mostly dark.
Like every foreign correspondent in the city, Mr. Doder heard rumors that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was severely ill. He filed a story that reached The Post’s foreign desk at 7 p.m. on Feb. 9 reporting that various telltale signs “appeared to indicate that the country was being placed on an emergency footing,” suggesting strongly that Andropov was dead. A similar occurrence happened two years earlier with the death of Andropov’s predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev.
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That was an interesting period in Soviet leadership. Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko then Gorbachev in pretty rapid succession.
@Mik said in @Renauda May Find this Interesting:
That was an interesting period in Soviet leadership. Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko then Gorbachev in pretty rapid succession.
We all used to laugh at how old those guys were, the oldest being Brezhnev at 75...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/18/dusko-doder-post-journalist-dies/
He sensed something was amiss on a February night in 1984, when state radio canceled a jazz program and broadcast somber classical music. He noticed also that the lights at the Defense Ministry and the Soviet secret police, the KGB, were blazing at hours when their offices were often mostly dark.
Like every foreign correspondent in the city, Mr. Doder heard rumors that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was severely ill. He filed a story that reached The Post’s foreign desk at 7 p.m. on Feb. 9 reporting that various telltale signs “appeared to indicate that the country was being placed on an emergency footing,” suggesting strongly that Andropov was dead. A similar occurrence happened two years earlier with the death of Andropov’s predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev.
He sensed something was amiss on a February night in 1984, when state radio canceled a jazz program and broadcast somber classical music.
That was the usual practice in the post Khrushchev era USSR when a serving Politiburo member died. I seem to recall that the go to favourite was Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Seems to me the somber tunes also interrupted regular TV and radio programming when Yeltsin died despite the fact he had already been out of office for some years.
