以下是維基百科對前蘇聯總書記，安德羅波夫的條目：
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Andropov
裡面有一段寫到：
At home, Andropov attempted to improve the USSR's economy by increasing its
workforce's efficiency. He cracked down on Soviet laborers' lack of
discipline by decreeing the arrest of absentee employees and penalties for
tardiness.[45] For the first time, the facts about economic stagnation and
obstacles to scientific progress were made available to the public and open
to criticism.[46] Furthermore, Andropov gave select industries greater
autonomy from state regulations[47] and enabled factory managers to retain
control over more of their profits.[48] Such policies resulted in a 4% rise
in industrial output and increased investment in new technologies such as
robotics.
下面又寫到：
In contrast to Brezhnev's policy of avoiding conflicts and dismissals,
Andropov began to fight violations of party, state and labor discipline,
which led to significant personnel changes during an anti-corruption campaign
against many of Brezhnev's cronies.[6] During 15 months in office, Andropov
dismissed 18 ministers and 37 first secretaries of obkoms, kraikoms and
Central Committees of Communist Parties of Soviet Republics, and criminal
cases against high-level party and state officials were started.
然後還有一段：
From 1980 to 1982, while still chair of the KGB, Andropov opposed plans to
occupy Poland after the emergence of the Solidarity movement and promoted
reform-minded party cadres, including Mikhail Gorbachev.[6] Andropov was the
longest-serving KGB chairman and did not resign as head of the KGB until May
1982, when he was again promoted to the Secretariat to succeed Mikhail Suslov
as secretary responsible for ideological affairs.
最後是這一段：
He was generally regarded as inclined to more gradual and constructive reform
than was Gorbachev; most of the speculation centers on whether Andropov would
have reformed the USSR in a manner that did not result in its eventual
dissolution.