• November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union...
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    and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev The Death of Stalin, a 2017 film directed by Armando Iannucci Khlevniuk, Oleg (2017). Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator...
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    Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev Death and funeral of Mikhail...
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    Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev Death and state funeral...
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    (Minister of Foreign Affairs)  San Marino: Pietro Chiaruzzi and Primo Marani (Captains Regent)  Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev (General Secretary of the Central...
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  • understanding of the history of the late Soviet Union and of its successor, the Russian Federation, requires the assessment of the legacy of Leonid Brezhnev, the...
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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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    history of the 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...
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    Konstantin Chernenko (category Heads of state of the Soviet Union)
    serving under Leonid Brezhnev. After Brezhnev took over as First Secretary of the CPSU in 1964, Chernenko rose to head the General Department of the Central...
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  • July 1995) was the wife of Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. She was the mother of Yuri Brezhnev and Galina Brezhneva. She...
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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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    154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment (category Military units and formations established in 1979)
    their attendance in various Soviet state funerals (including the Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev) and in the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow...
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    Falklands War. November 10: death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev November 14: Yuri Andropov becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union. January: Soviet...
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    the urns were carried by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and senior Communist Party members – Alexei Kosygin and Nikolai Podgorny. Yuri Gagarin, the first...
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    and 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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  • Mezhnikov, the funeral arranger Gerald Lepkowski as Leonid Brezhnev, part of Zhukov's execution squad Luke D'Silva as Kirill Moskalenko, part of Zhukov's execution...
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    military leaders, such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko all followed the same basic outline...
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    De-Stalinization Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin Death dates of victims...
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    months following Stalin's death; 3) the years between Nikita Khrushchev's fall and Leonid Brezhnev's consolidation of power; and 4) the ailing Konstantin...
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    Alexei Kosygin (category People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union)
    the Council of Ministers. When Nikita Khrushchev was removed from power in 1964, Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev succeeded him as Premier and First Secretary...
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  • Tito Death and state funeral of King Hussein Death and state funeral of Lech Kaczyński and Maria Kaczyńska Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev Death...
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    Igor Kirillov (category Recipients of the USSR State Prize)
    celebrations of state occasions, the death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev and his successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, and as well as...
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  • Andrei Kirilenko (politician) (category Recipients of the Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR")
    politician, and a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was one of the most loyal politicians to Leonid Brezhnev. His role...
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    Leonid Brezhnev's death and funeral until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Failed attempts at reform, a standstill economy, and the success of the United...
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  • speeches of the time: "Dear Leonid Ilyich." The phone rings, Brezhnev picks up the receiver: "Hello, this is dear Leonid Ilyich...." During Brezhnev's time...
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    Yuri Andropov (category Heads of state of the Soviet Union)
    Grechko and Grechko's successor, Marshal Dmitry Ustinov. Upon Brezhnev's death on 10 November 1982, Andropov succeeded him as General Secretary and, by extension...
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    Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev and many other well-known people including Che Guevara and former U.S. president...
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    Chuck Connors (category New York (state) Republicans)
    in support of the Vietnam War in 1967. Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union, met Connors when Brezhnev arrived on Air Force One at El Toro Marine...
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    (culminating in the SALT I treaty) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. Negotiations...
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    Khrushchev from power and elected Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary. The Central Committee was an important organ in the beginning of Brezhnev's rule, but lost...
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