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Were there only two non-Russian leaders of the USSR?

Question by Irish 313: Were there only two non-Russian leaders of the USSR (Stalin was Georgian and Khrushchev was Ukrainian)?
Thanks.
Was Andropov Ukrainian or Russian do you know?
Huh, seems Brezhnev was Ukrainian. Thought he was Russian.

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  1. Bevum says

    Malenkov was by Macedonian ancestry.

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  2. Wave2012 says

    there are controversial rumors about Lenin. They say that ha had Russian, Kalmyk, German-Swiss and Jewish ancestry.

    Chernenko had Ukrainian father.

    Brezhnev in different documents had different ethnicity Ukrainian and Russian. But he was born in Ukraine.

    Andropov’s mother was adopted by Finns (thus unclear where she was from).

    And of course Mr Iosif Jugashvili.

    So, only Khruschev without doubts had Russian ancestors.

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  3. .•*¨*•. .☆AN☆. .•*¨*•. says

    Khrushchev was born in Kursk Oblast, near the present Ukrainian border; he worked in Ukraine (Donbas).
    Brezhnev was born in Ukraine (Dneprodzerzhynsk).
    There is no difference between Russians and Ukrainians (except Western “Ukrainians”).

    Andropov’s mother was of Ashkenazi/German/Finnish origin.

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  4. xyzzy says

    Brezhnev was Ukrainian although after he joined the Communist Party he claimed to be Russian.

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  5. long shaft says

    You forget the Kings or Royalty (Czars) which the peoples movement kicked out of power (the Lenin equality theory was that no one is better than anyone else and if everyone’s energies were focused to community center then the community would all be better served. I mean up to this time, there had been the Royal family(and how did they get to be Royal in the first place?) Their poop stinks just the same as the next person. Lenin believed that all should be equal and their work be graded as equal.
    This was the early development of Communism.
    Peter the Great was another leader.
    Stalin stood as a replacement for royalty and he represented Lenin’s theory(to the people) Soon Stalin was sending many to work camps in Siberia. Stalin’s kill ratio was easy 10X”s that of Hitler on his own people!
    Find books written by a Russian author who survived those camps.- The Gulag Archipeligo by Alexander Solzenitzn. It is a thick paperback of 600 pages. Silver cover. I read it in 3 days, I could not put the book down. It was freaky poop that happened during that time period. And in it there is reference to some past rulers, but also the rulership of Stalin. And of the camps. Nothing on TV is “that” bad. His other 2 books are more on politics so dry reading and not worth the time.

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  6. Lenny says

    The last name Chernenko sounds certifiably Ukrainian. But he could be Russian with just the remote Ukrainian ancestor.

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  7. Curtis says

    im ukrainian. 🙂

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