A 1996 CIA report<span> on the 1983 war scare concluded that the Soviets genuinely feared a preemptive nuclear strike from the United States. General Secretary Yuri Andropov “repeatedly compared” Reagan to Hitler, the architect of a devastating surprise attack on the Soviet Union that it barely survived, and told his Politburo colleagues that he was “fanning the flames of war,” an image, the report's author notes dryly, “more sinister than Andropov as a Red Darth Vader.” </span>
The President is known as the titular executive or nominal head of the country. Though the President has powers they are limited. These powers can be put into practice only if the Prime Minister and the council of ministers advice him to do so.,
It is the process which provides private individuals and opportunity to influence piblic decisions and to be a component of the democraric decision making process