As the leader of the USSR, the Soviet leadership prepared Nursultan Nazabaev to replace Gorabchev. And what is curious is Nazarbayev himself knew about this. So it is very likely that Nazarbayev will become general secretary immediately after Andropov.
As for Putin, in the USSR he would probably...
In 1931 tests of the tank Type 91 were carried out. Despite that tests were successful, the tank didn't satisfy military. And Japanese designers received a task to make cardinal re-planning of the machine. That was done.
First of all, designers decided to get rid of two machine-gun towers...