Crocodile

Cold, calculating KGB predator who waited in shadows to strike.

Andropov spent fifteen years as KGB chief mastering the art of patient, ruthless surveillance and strategic elimination of threats — the quintessential lie-in-wait predator. He revealed almost nothing of his true intentions, cultivating a deceptively mild intellectual image while orchestrating brutal crackdowns on dissidents and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. When he finally seized power as General Secretary in 1982, it was the culmination of decades of cold, emotionless calculation rather than any display of charisma or force.