Leonid Brezhnev: Difference between revisions
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|crimes = Political corruption, oppression, abuse of power | |crimes = Political corruption, oppression, abuse of power | ||
|goals = Remain leader of the Soviet Union (failed)<br>Continue expanding the Soviet Union | |goals = Remain leader of the Soviet Union (failed)<br>Continue expanding the Soviet Union | ||
|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}}'''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 | |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}} | |||
'''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 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, | His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of [[Joseph Stalin]] in duration. During Brezhnev's rule, | ||
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