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    Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet...
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  • On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the...
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    "Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries". Leonid Brezhnev reiterated it in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United...
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  • was the daughter of Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Viktoria Brezhneva. Galina Brezhneva was born on 18 April 1929...
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  • Soviet politician and longtime Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Viktoria Denisova. Before his retirement, Brezhnev was a Candidate Member of the Central Committee...
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  • Convocation of the Supreme Soviet and signed by Chairman of the Presidium Leonid Brezhnev. The 1977 Constitution replaced the 1936 Constitution and the Soviet...
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  • the Russian Federation, requires the assessment of the legacy of Leonid Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist...
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  • An assassination attempt was made upon Leonid Brezhnev on 22 January 1969, when a deserter from the Soviet Army, Viktor Ilyin, fired shots at a motorcade...
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  • and decorations of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet General Secretary and statesman, sorted into two sections; foreign and domestic. Brezhnev's receipt of the Order...
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    in 1995. The initial name of the ship was Riga; it was launched as Leonid Brezhnev, embarked on sea trials as Tbilisi, and was finally named after Admiral...
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    Soviet policymakers in the mid-1960s along with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Kosygin was born in the city of Saint Petersburg in 1904 to a Russian...
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    decisions without discussing or confirming them with the Politburo. Leonid Brezhnev, a close companion of Khrushchev, was elected the first secretary the...
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    social policies of the Soviet Union that began during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982) and continued under Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) and Konstantin...
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    The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Russian: Сове́т Экономи́ческой Взаимопо́мощи, romanized: Sovét Ekonomícheskoy Vzaimopómoshchi, СЭВ; English...
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  • Reagan (2024 film) (category Cultural depictions of Leonid Brezhnev)
    Mikhail Gorbachev Hideo Kimura as Yasuhiro Nakasone Robert Davi as Leonid Brezhnev Scott Stapp as Frank Sinatra Xander Berkeley as George Shultz Moriah...
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  • Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. She was the mother of Yuri Brezhnev and Galina Brezhneva. She was born in Belgorod in...
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    name Troika) alongside Premier Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. On 6 December 1965, he replaced Anastas Mikoyan as Chairman of the...
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    head of the propaganda department in Moldavia, serving under Leonid Brezhnev. After Brezhnev took over as First Secretary of the CPSU in 1964, Chernenko...
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  • Look up Brezhnev in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) was a Soviet politician. Brezhnev may also refer to: Brezhnev (surname)...
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    decision to split into two, the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. Leonid Brezhnev and the leadership of the Warsaw Pact countries were worried that the...
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    Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, referred to as the Brezhnev Era, covers the period of Leonid Brezhnev's rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)...
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    1964, the Kremlin circle stripped him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. Khrushchev was born...
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    Dnipropetrovsk Mafia (category Leonid Brezhnev)
    Dnipropetrovsk Mafia was firmly established, comprising the close allies of Leonid Brezhnev in his political activities in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the city of...
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  • Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), a General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Viktoria Brezhneva (1908–1995), wife of Leonid Brezhnev Vladimir...
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    Brezhnevka (category Leonid Brezhnev)
    was built in the Soviet Union from 1964–1980 under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, after whom the building type is named. The brezhnevka was preceded...
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    had been supporting human rights groups inside the Soviet Union, and Leonid Brezhnev accused the US of interference in other countries' internal affairs...
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    not troops. The war began after the Soviets, under the command of Leonid Brezhnev, launched an invasion of Afghanistan to support the local pro-Soviet...
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    President Richard M. Nixon of the United States and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was held May 22–30,...
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    openness known as the Khrushchev Thaw. However, the subsequent era under Leonid Brezhnev, referred to as the Era of Stagnation, was marked by economic decline...
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    time led by Leonid Brezhnev, born in Ukraine, as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Brezhnev's rule would be...
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