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'''Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev''' (/ˈbrɛʒnɛf/;[1] Russian: Леони́д Ильи́ч Бре́жнев; IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲid ɪˈlʲjitɕ ˈbrʲɛʐnʲɪf] ( listen); Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іллі́ч Бре́жнєв, 19 December 1906 (O.S. 6 December) – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the [[Communist]] Party of the Soviet Union

<nowiki> </nowiki>(CPSU), presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982.

<nowiki> </nowiki>(CPSU), presiding over the country for most of the [[Cold War]], from 1964 until his death in 1982.

His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of [[Joseph Stalin]] in duration. During Brezhnev's rule,

<nowiki> </nowiki>the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically, in part

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 '''Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev''' (/ˈbrɛʒnɛf/;<sup>[1]</sup> Russian: Леони́д Ильи́ч Бре́жнев; <small>IPA: </small>[lʲɪɐˈnʲid ɪˈlʲjitɕ ˈbrʲɛʐnʲɪf]<small> ( listen)</small>; Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іллі́ч Бре́жнєв, 19 December 1906 <small>(O.S. 6 December)</small> – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the [[Communist]] Party of the Soviet Union
-<nowiki> </nowiki>(CPSU), presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982.
+<nowiki> </nowiki>(CPSU), presiding over the country for most of the [[Cold War]], from 1964 until his death in 1982.
 His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of [[Joseph Stalin]] in duration. During Brezhnev's rule,
 <nowiki> </nowiki>the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically, in part