RULERS & OFFICIALS
(Latin alphabetical order by surname)
| NAME [birth & death] | POSITIONS [dates held] |
| Hafizullah AMIN (1929-1979) | Afghan minister of foreign affairs, 1978-1979; president, September-December 1979 (assassinated) |
| Yury ANDROPOV (1914-1984) | KGB chairman, 1967-1982; CPSU Secretary General, 1982-1984 |
| Willy BRANDT (1913-1992) | (Born Herbert FRAHM) Mayor of West Berlin, 1957-1966; West German Chancellor, 1969-1974; SPD leader, 1964-1987; president of Socialist International, 1976-1992 |
| Leonid BREZHNEV (1906-1982) | CPSU Secretary General, 1964-1982 |
| Fidel CASTRO (1926-2016) | Cuba, first secretary Cuban Communist Party, 1965-2011 |
| Victor CHEBRIKOV (1923-1999) | KGB chairman, 1982-1988; Politburo member (candidate 1983-1985), 1985-1989 |
| Mikhail GORBACHOV (1931-2022) | 1st Secretary Stavropol CP, 1970-1978; Central Committee secretary, 1978-1984; Politburo (candidate 1979-1980) 1980-1991; CPSU Secretary General, 1985-1991; Soviet President (1990-1991) |
| ?Sergei GORELOV (1920-2009) | Soviet air-force Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Andrei GROMYKO (1909-1989) | Soviet foreign minister, 1957-1985 |
| Erich HONECKER (1912-1994) | Secretary General, Socialist Unity Party (GDR), 1971-1989 |
| A.N. KOSYGIN (1904-1980) | Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers 1964-1980 (i.e., Soviet “prime minister”); Politburo member, 1960-1980 |
| Vladimir KRYUCHKOV (1924-2007) | Head of KGB First Directorate, 1974-1988; KGB chairman, 1988-1991 |
| Nikolai PODGORNY (1906-1983) | Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, 1965-1977 (i.e., Soviet “president”); Politburo member, 1960-1977 |
| Boris PONOMARYOV (1905-1995) | Director of Central Committee International Department, 1957-1986 (CC secretary, 1961-1986); Politburo (candidate), 1972-1986 |
| Alexander M. PUZANOV (1906-1998) | 1957-1972 Soviet ambassador to North Korea, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria; Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, 1972-1979 |
| SHAH MOHAMMED DOST | Afghan foreign minister, 1979-1986 |
| SHAH WALI | Afghan foreign minister, 1979 |
| Eduard SHEVARDNADZE (1928-2014) | Georgian SSR Minister of Internal Affairs, 1st secretary, Georgian CP, 1972-1985 [1]; Soviet foreign minister, 1985-1990 |
| Kalevi SORSA (1930-2004) | Finnish prime minister and foreign minister, several times in 1970s and 1980s. Social Democrat Party chairman 1957-1987; vice-president of Socialist International from mid-1970s |
| Fikrat TABEYEV (1928-2015) | Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, 1979-1986 |
| Nur Mohammed TARAKI (1917-1979) | Afghan president and prime minister, 1978-1979 (assassinated) |
| Semyon TSVIGUN (1917-1982) | KGB 1st deputy chairman, 1967-1982 (suicide) |
| Dmitry USTINOV (1924-2020) | Soviet defence minister, 1976-1984 |
| Dmitry YAZOV (1924-2020) | Soviet defence minister, 1987-1991; participant in attempted August 1991 putsch |
| Lev ZAIKOV (1923-2002) | 1st secretary, Leningrad Region CP, 1983-1985; Central Committee secretary 1985-1990; 1st secretary Moscow CP, 1987-1989; Politburo, 1986-1990 |
NOTES
- See entries for Shevardnadze in A Chronicle of Current Events (1968-1972), “Name Index“.
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