Growing political stagnation under Brezhnev, Andropov

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    • USSR became a gerontocracy.
    • Failure of the command economy.
    • Excessive levels of military spending.
    • Stability of Cadres.
    • Due to Khrushchev and Brezhnev, the party was split in two with one half focused on industry and the other half on agriculture.
    • Brezhnev's own daughter involved in smuggling of 1 million roubles worth of diamonds.
    • By 1982, USSR produced 1/6th the amount of crops versus the USA.
    • By 1970, military spending was at 13% of GDP.