Andropov’s family story is very strange btw. He didn’t know until he was grilled prior to joining the CPSU that his mother was adopted and the “aunt” who had raised him was a servant who had been working for the family since before he was born https://twitter.com/QuasLacrimas/status/1360013650191343616

In fact I think it’s more than plausible his mother was a bastard discretely left on her father’s doorstep and the “great aunt”/nanny was his actual grandmother. So maybe he rly was part jewish and part peasant, just like he’d been told growing up

(what this means for Andropov’s “hungarian complex” is left as exercise to reader)