Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov for fifteen years led the State Security Committee and with over a year led the country. Meanwhile, Soviet citizens knew almost nothing about its origin. For a number of reasons, documents about his birth, information about his parents were kept under the "secret" stamp in the main archive of the USSR.
Only the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and the head of the General Department of the Central Committee had access to these secret documents. Only these two people knew that the archive contains folders that shed light on the childhood, adolescence and youth of Yuri Andropov.
Not so long ago, these documents were declassified. The historian Leonid Mlechin in his documentary film will try to understand the secrets of the origin of Yu.V. Andropov, who played an important role in the life of the Soviet state. He will try to understand why information about his origin, about his relatives for a long time was one of the most important secrets in the USSR.
Why did the investigation of the biography of his parents, grandfathers and great-grandfathers almost cost Andropov a career, and maybe even a life? What information did the biography of the chairman of the State Security Committee, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee contain in the film:
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