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The man in the photo to the right is Yuri Andropov, who "... was the sixth paramount leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union." The photo to the left is from the Wiki article about Putin, and the photo to the right and the quotation are from the Wiki article about Andropov.
Full commentary from BreitbartFormer KGB chairman and Soviet dictator Yuri Andropov was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mentor. As the great historian Anne Applebaum wrote in 2012:
…[Putin] initiated a minor cult of Yuri Andropov, the longest-serving KGB boss in Soviet history (1967-1982), as well as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, a post he held only briefly, in the year before his unexpected death in 1984. As FSB chief, Putin laid flowers on Andropov’s grave, and dedicated a plaque to his hero inside the Lubyanka, the KGB’s notorious Moscow headquarters. Later, as president, he ordered another plaque placed on the Moscow building where Andropov had lived and erected a statue to him in a St. Petersburg suburb.
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