Editing Yuri Andropov (section)

==Suppression of the Hungarian Uprising==
{{Main|Hungarian Revolution of 1956}}
[[File:Андропов Юрий Владимирович, партийный билет 1955.png|thumb|right|Communist party Membership card issued to Yuri Andropov in 1955.]]
In July 1954, Andropov was appointed [[List of ambassadors of Russia to Hungary|Ambassador to Hungary]]. He held this position during the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|1956 Hungarian Revolution]]. Andropov played a key role in crushing the uprising. He convinced Soviet First Secretary [[Nikita Khrushchev]] that military intervention was necessary.<ref name="Andrew" /> Andropov is known as "The Butcher of Budapest" for his ruthless suppression of the uprising.<ref>{{cite journal |date=27 June 2004 |title=He may be an economic liberal, but Putin is an Andropov at heart |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/he-may-be-an-economic-liberal-but-putin-is-an-andropov-at-heart-1-1395380 |journal=[[The Scotsman]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406123129/http://www.scotsman.com/news/he-may-be-an-economic-liberal-but-putin-is-an-andropov-at-heart-1-1395380 |archive-date=6 April 2016 }}</ref> Hungarian leaders were arrested and [[Imre Nagy]] and others executed.

After these events, Andropov suffered from a "Hungarian complex", according to historian [[Christopher Andrew (historian)|Christopher Andrew]]: "He had watched in horror from the windows of his embassy as officers of the hated Hungarian security service [the ''[[Államvédelmi Hatóság]]'' (AVH)] were strung up from lampposts. Andropov remained haunted for the rest of his life by the speed with which an apparently all-powerful Communist [[one-party state]] had begun to topple. When other Communist regimes later seemed at risk – [[Prague Spring|in Prague in 1968]], [[Soviet–Afghan War|in Kabul in 1979]], [[Martial law in Poland|in Warsaw in 1981]], he was convinced that, as in [[Budapest]] in 1956, only armed force could ensure their survival".<ref name="Andrew">[[Christopher Andrew (historian)|Christopher Andrew]] and [[Vasili Mitrokhin]], ''The [[Mitrokhin Archive]]: The KGB in Europe and the West'', Gardners Books (2000), {{ISBN|0-14-028487-7}}.</ref>