University Daily Kansan, November 12, 1982
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Muscovites indifferent to Brezhnev's death
By United Press International
There were no tears in Moscow's streets as shoppers rushed beneath the morning flaps.
One Soviet woman leaving Red Square was old enough to recall the people's reaction to the death of her husband.
"It was quite different when Stalin died," she said. "The people ran in the House of Unions to demand that he be sent."
THERE WAS NO running yesterday, but thousands of pedestrians streamed through the Lenin Mausoleum until police blocked off Red Square.
Workmen were busy dismantling flagpoles and scaffolding from last Sunday's Revolution Day parade — the final public appearance for the 75-year-old Brezhnev.
Hundreds of people gathered behind metal barricades for a curious scan of the square on a
gray, chilly day. Some lingered for a few minutes. The only surging crowds were perhaps 200 feet away, in the halls and shops of the giant GUM department store.
Reaction to Brehzev's death was noticeable more for the way citizens carried on normally than for any outpouring of grief, or relief.
"It IS VERY sad news," said one man, Valentin, as he stood with his wife at the edge of Red Square.
"He was a respected leader but he was old. It's natural."
Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev, who died Wednesday at the age of 75, engaged in a mock arm-wrestling competition with President Nixon when the two leaders were traveling to the
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western White House in San Clemente, Calif., aboard Air Force One in 1973.
Soviet leader Leonid Breznev will be buried Monday on Red Square in a pine-shaded nook between Lenin's tomb and the Kremlin. Tass was said yesterday.
Funeral is Monday on Red Square
Brezhnev will lie in state at the House of Unions, a ceremonial building in downtown Moscow. Viewing will begin today and continue through Sunday.
salute will be fired in Moscow and other major Soviet cities and all work will be stopped for five minutes.
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Schools will be closed.
Brevhne will be buried on Red Square between Lenin's tomb and the walls of the Kremlin, where Soviet leaders are laid to rest following cremation.
The remains of Kremlin leaders are generally cremated.
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Brezhnev
European Studies, said that although the replacement for Breznev was not certain, it was certain that the next Soviet leader would be old — very old.
"If all precedence is not broken, the new leader will come from the Politburo, and the average age in that group is 70." Laird said. "The President is waiting in the wings in the Soviet Union."
Former KGB chief Yuri Andropov, 68, amateur Brezhvin's ex-right-hand man Konstantin Chenkenko, 71, are probably the two front-runners. The former Gromyko, 71, Moscow party leader Viktor Akulev, youngster Grigory Romanov, 59, the Leningrad party leader, are other possible choices, he said.
The choice will not come soon, however, and the process of making it may be chaotic, he said.
“WE'RE NOT GOING to see the real Soviet leader for the next year or so,” he said. “They don't have a legally prescribed method for choosing a successor.”
"In effect what is going to happen is that the party is going to look at the older leaders and say, 'You guys run things for a while until we see who the real leader is going to be.' The Soviets like long-time leaders. Unless you get your nose really dirty you're in there for life," he said.
Saul said the struggle in Russia's geriatric Politburo was between 13 conservative men, and that no recognizable change should take place in the structure of the government.
"NOTHING IS GOING to change immediately," he said. "It's difficult to say what the outcome of the power struggle will be, but there's the potential for a more liberal approach, and wouldn't expect to get a much tougher leader."
Most Soviet leaders have held their office for a long time, he said. Brezhnev served as president for 18 years, Joseph Stalin for 29 years and Vladimir Lenin for seven years.
Tougher or not the new leader will not be at all new, and the Soviet inability to foster young leaders is a major weakness.
If the Soviet Union remains conservative, brothev will be viewed as a baition of the faith, but it may also be seen as a source of income.
Pleikiewicz said a shift to the liberal side as likely, and history would not look kindly upon it.
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"Khrushchev had imagination, he was flexible, he was actually rather naive," Piekaliewicz said. "He was a man with feelings of experience who tried to change things for the better."
"Brezhnev led the Soviet Union on the path to stagnation and will be forgotten rather quickly. I don't think there was anything done by him that was not for preservation of the status quo."
CENTRALIZATION OF power is a necessity in the Soviet government, however, so Breznev's successor will likely have the same power Breznev had, he said.
Laird said such a system cost the Soviets economically.
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"The Soviet Union's plight is the price they pay for the enormous centralization of power," he said. "Their tendency to try to make all big decisions from Moscow is paid for by enormous economic inefficiency. I don't see that they are at all willing to change."
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