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|Image = Leonid Brezhnev.jpg
|image = [[File:File-Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R22014, Magda Goebbels-1478460708.jpg|thumb|327x327px]]
|fullname = Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
|fullname = Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
|alias =Leonid Il'ič Brežnev (Russian transliteration)
|alias = N/A
|occupation = General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1964 - 1982)
|occupation = General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1964 - 1982)
|origin = Kamenskoye, Ukraine, Russian Empire
|origin = Kamenskoye, Ukraine, Russian Empire
|type of villain = Charismatic Tyrant
|type of villain = Tyrant
|crimes = Corruption<br>Nepotism<br>Cronyism<br>Oppression<br>Abuse of power<br>Quashing an uprising in Czechoslovakia<br>Invading Afghanistan<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>[[Cruelty to animals]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Arms trafficking]]<br>Enabling Polish Martial Law<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Americophobia]]<br>[[Anglophobia]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Hate Speech]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]
|crimes = Political corruption<br>
|goals = Remain leader of the Soviet Union (succeeded)<br>Ease tensions with the US (initially succeeded, ultimately failed)<br>Continue expanding Soviet influence (partially succeeded)<br>
Oppression<br>
Abuse of power<br>
Quashing an uprising in Czechoslovakia<br>
Invading Afghanistan
|goals = Remain leader of the Soviet Union (succeeded)<br>
Ease tensions with the US (initially succeeded, ultimately failed)<br>
Continue expanding Soviet influence (partially succeeded)
|hobby = }}
|hobby = }}
{{Quote|The substance of socialist democracy lies in efficient socialist organisation of all society for the sake of every individual, and in the socialist discipline of every individual for the sake of all society.|Leonid Brezhnev}}
{{Quote|The substance of socialist democracy lies in efficient socialist organisation of all society for the sake of every individual, and in the socialist discipline of every individual for the sake of all society.|Leonid Brezhnev}}
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In 1979 Brezhnev reached agreement with U.S. President Jimmy Carter on a new bilateral strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II), but the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty, and soon afterward the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan (December 1979) in an effort to prop up a faltering communist government there. Brezhnev’s government also helped plan General [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]]’s suppression of Poland’s Solidarity union in December 1981. His efforts to neutralize internal dissent within the Soviet Union itself were similarly determined.
In 1979 Brezhnev reached agreement with U.S. President Jimmy Carter on a new bilateral strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II), but the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty, and soon afterward the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan (December 1979) in an effort to prop up a faltering communist government there. Brezhnev’s government also helped plan General [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]]’s suppression of Poland’s Solidarity union in December 1981. His efforts to neutralize internal dissent within the Soviet Union itself were similarly determined.
Brezhnev retained his hold on power to the end despite his frail health and growing feebleness. He gave the Soviet Union a formidable military-industrial base capable of supplying large numbers of the most modern weapons, but in so doing he impoverished the rest of the Soviet economy. After his death, he was criticized for a gradual slide in living standards, the spread of corruption and cronyism within the Soviet bureaucracy, and the generally stagnant and dispiriting character of Soviet life in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
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[[Category:War Criminal]]
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[[Category:Russia]]
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[[Category:The Most Powerful Villains in History]]
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[[Category:Weapon Dealer]]
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[[Category:Military]]
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[[Category:Misogynists]]
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