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Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and later from 1977 to 1982. His tenure as General Secretary and leader of the Soviet Union was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration.
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entertainment · Leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 · politician · engineer · military personnel · surveyor · film actor · also Leonid Brezhnev, Brezhnev
Born 19 December 1906 · Died 10 November 1982 · Q765165
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Our Party supports and will continue to support peoples fighting for their freedom. In so doing, the Soviet Union does not look for advantages, does not hunt for concessions, does not seek political domination and is not after military bases. We act as we are bid by our revolutionary conscience, our communist convictions.
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The defeat of Nazi Germany signified the victory of progress over reaction, humanity over barbarism and the victory of socialism over imperialist obscurantism. This victory opened the road for advancing the revolutionary struggle of the working class, a national liberation movement on an unprecedented scale and the destruction of the shameful colonial system.
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2026· 13 entries
Theatre and Tonic: Letter To Brezhnev at Royal Court Liverpool Review
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livpost.co.uk: Brezhnev’s back!
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The Guardian: Letter to Brezhnev review – terrific return for Merseysiders’ romance with Russian sailors
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West End Best Friend: Review: LETTER TO BREZHNEV, Royal Court Liverpool
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artscityliverpool.com: Review: Letter to Brezhnev at Liverpool's Royal Court ****1/2
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wirralglobe.co.uk: REVIEW: Letter to Brezhnev returns to Liverpool stage in five-star revival
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Liverpool Echo: Letter To Brezhnev comes full circle as Liverpool love story returns to city
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The Stage: Letter to Brezhnev review at Liverpool’s Royal Court: Cold War couldn’t be much warmer and cosier
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The Reviews Hub: Letter to Brezhnev, Liverpool Royal Court
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UPI: On This Day: Nixon, Brezhnev sign nuclear pact
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NDTV: Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev's Great-Grandson, Fighting For Russia, Captured By Ukraine: Report
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The Guardian: ‘The film humanised Russians at a time when Rambo was killing them’: how we made Letter to Brezhnev
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2018· 1 entry
Rferl.org: Brezhnev's Grandson Dies Of Heart Attack In Crimea
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2013· 2 entries
Brezhnev beat Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin (respectively) as Russia's favorite leader in the 20th century with 56% approval
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Brezhnev was voted the best Russian leader of the 20th century
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2007· 1 entry
The majority of Russians chose to live during the Brezhnev era rather than any other period of 20th century Soviet history
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1995· 2 entries
Which claimed that Brezhnev worked systematically to bring privileges to his family, including appointments, apartments, private luxury stores, private medical facilities, and immunity from prosecution
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His niece Lyubov Brezhneva published a memoir in 1995 which claimed that Brezhnev worked systematically to bring privileges to his family, including appointments, apartments, private luxury stores, private medical facilities, and immunity from prosecution.
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1985· 1 entry
Mikhail Gorbachev denounced Brezhnev's government for its inefficiency and inflexibility before launching a campaign to liberalize the Soviet Union
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1982· 30 entries
Died 1982-11-10.
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“Modern production sets rapidly rising demands not only on machines, on technology, but also and primarily on the workers, on those who create these machines and control this technology. For ever larger segments of workers specialised knowledge and a high degree of professional training, man’s general cultural standard, are becoming an obligatory condition of successful work.”
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“We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.”
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“When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of the restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country … this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries.”
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“The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.”
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“Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in international affairs.”
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“Today progress is so swift in all fields that the education received by young people is only a foundation that requires the constant acquisition of knowledge.”
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“Our Party supports and will continue to support peoples fighting for their freedom. In so doing, the Soviet Union does not look for advantages, does not hunt for concessions, does not seek political domination and is not after military bases. We act as we are bid by our revolutionary conscience, our communist convictions.”
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“It stands to the Party’s credit that millions upon millions of Soviet men of every nation and nationality have adopted internationalism—once the ideal of a handful of Communists—as their deep conviction and standard of behaviour. This was a true revolution in social thinking, and one which it is hard to overestimate.”
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“We want the world socialist system to be a well-knit family of nations, building and defending the new society together, and mutually enriching each other with experience and knowledge, a family, strong and united, which the people of the world would regard as the prototype of the future world community of free nations.”
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“Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, revisionists and opportunists reflect the pressure of nonproletarian, bourgeois and petty-bourgeois strata, the pressure that results from the force of habit, from the views and vestiges of the past, particularly those that are nationalistic.”
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“One of our primary tasks is to foster in people a desire to attain lofty social goals, to foster in them ideological conviction and a truly creative attitude to work. This is a very important area of struggle for communism, and the economic as well as the socio-political development of the country will be increasingly dependent on our successes in this area.”
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“The defeat of Nazi Germany signified the victory of progress over reaction, humanity over barbarism and the victory of socialism over imperialist obscurantism. This victory opened the road for advancing the revolutionary struggle of the working class, a national liberation movement on an unprecedented scale and the destruction of the shameful colonial system.”
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“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.”
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“L'Unione Sovietica ha dato e continuerà a dare ampio aiuto militare, economico e politico al popolo vietnamita.”
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“Yacha (Яков) est son frère. Le communisme tel qu'évoqué ici est l'hypothétique stade final que doit atteindre l'URSS après la dictature du prolétariat, le socialisme développé et le dépérissement de l'État.”
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“Se il governo americano è capace di ascoltare la voce della ragione, esso deve cessare immediatamente i bombardamenti e le altre azioni aggressive contro il Vietnam del Nord e considerare realisticamente le proposte di trattative di quel paese.”
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“God will not forgive us if we fail.”
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“Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.”
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“I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.”
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“It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.”
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“We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.”
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“Regarding the dreams of reaching military superiority over the U.S.S.R., one would do better to drop them. If it has to be, the Soviet people would find the possibility to undertake any additional efforts and to do everything that is necessary to guarantee a reliable defense of their country.”
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“The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.”
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“Of late, attempts have been made in the USA — at a high level and in a rather cynical form — to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.”
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“Modern science and technology have reached a level where there is the grave danger that a weapon even more terrible than nuclear weapons may be developed. The reason and conscience of mankind dictate the need to erect an insuperable barrier barrier to the development of such a weapon.”
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“We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.”
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“Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.”
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“As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.”
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“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand. . .”
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1981· 2 entries
Won Gold Star medal (1981).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1981).
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1980· 3 entries
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1980).
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A political crisis emerged in Poland with the emergence of the Solidarity movement
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Brezhnev's dominance over the Soviet leadership remained secure from the mid-1970s up until his eventual death in 1982
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1979· 4 entries
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1979).
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“Phrase adressée au président des États-Unis Jimmy Carter au sommet de Vienne en 1979 pour l'accord Salt II. Pourtant, l'URSS et ses dirigeants militent pour l'athéisme.”
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Henry Kissinger acknowledged that his policy of détente was faltering by the mid-1970s
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Carter, following the advice of his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, denounced the intervention, describing it as the "most serious danger to peace since 1945"
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1978· 7 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1978).
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Awarded Order of Victory (1978).
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Won Gold Star medal (1978).
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All satellites surpassed the Soviet Union in meat and egg production per capita, and Hungary produced more wheat
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“Statement made in World War II, as a commissar on the southern front, as quoted in Leonid I. Brezhnev : Pages from his Life (1978) by Academy of Sciences of the USSR, p. 49; also in For the Soul of Mankind : The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007) by Melvyn P. Leffler, p. 237”
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Which was posthumously revoked in 1989 for not meeting the criteria for citation
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Authoritarian actions forced upon the populace by the Communist regime led to the Afghan civil war, with the mujahideen leading the popular backlash against the regime
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1977· 3 entries
Won Karl Marx Gold Medal (1977).
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American intelligence officials publicly suggested that Brezhnev had also been suffering from gout, leukemia and emphysema from decades of heavy smoking, as well as chronic bronchitis
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Career landmark: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1977–1982).
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1976· 4 entries
Won Gold Star medal (1976).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1976).
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When Brezhnev suffered a near-fatal stroke that left him clinically dead before the doctors were able to resuscitate him
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The Politburo issued a resolution that ordered kolkhozes close to each other to collaborate in their efforts to increase production
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1975· 1 entry
Brezhnev's ability to lead the Soviet Union was significantly compromised
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1974).
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1973· 4 entries
Awarded Lenin Peace Prize (1973).
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“Radio and Television Address to the American people (June 24, 1973)”
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The process of catching up with the rest of the West came to an end and the Era of Stagnation was apparent
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Expressed a wish to drive around Washington in a Lincoln Continental that Nixon had just given him; upon being told that the Secret Service would not allow him to do this, he said "I will take the flag off the car, pu
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1972· 1 entry
To, among other things, negotiate on the Vietnam War, but nothing was agreed upon
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1971· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1971).
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Took the central position at the Party Congress in 1976, and was inscribed in the Constitution the following year
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Brezhnev acknowledged that vast military expenditure slowed the growth of the Soviet economy
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Klement Gottwald (1970).
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1969· 3 entries
The deterioration in bilateral relations culminated in the Sino–Soviet border conflict
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In an effort to ease the tension between the USSR and China
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Brezhnev further expanded his authority following a clash with Second Secretary Mikhail Suslov and other party officials who thereafter became firm supporters of his leadership over the Party
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1968· 8 entries
“Il processo rivoluzionario mondiale si sviluppa irresistibilmente e al suo centro vi è la lotta dei due principali sistemi sociali del nostro secolo, quello socialista e quello capitalista. (da un discorso a Varsavia, 12 novembre 1968)”
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With the attempt by the Communist leadership in Czechoslovakia, under Alexander Dubček, to liberalize the Communist system (Prague Spring)
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“Noi comunisti siamo fautori della vera democrazia e non concepiamo senza di essa un movimento in avanti. (da un discorso a Varsavia, 12 novembre 1968)”
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“Nel nostro paese gli operai, i contadini, gli intellettuali lavorano con grande entusiasmo, il che permette un continuo rafforzamento dell'unità morale e politica della società sovietica, la sua coesione intorno al partito. (da un discorso a Varsavia, 12 novembre 1968)”
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“Con l'eroico lavoro di questi anni i sovietici, stretti attorno al partito di Lenin, hanno creato nel nostro paese un'economia moderna che per il volume della sua produzione si è piazzata già da tempo al secondo posto nel mondo, e per una serie di importanti settori anche al primo. (da un discorso a Varsavia, 12 novembre 1968)”
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“A quali limiti possano giungere i revisionisti che agiscono sotto la copertura di una fraseologia di sinistra è mostrato dalla politica del gruppo di Mao Tse-tung. S'intende, tutte queste deformazioni sono profondamente estranee ai veri comunisti, fedeli al marxismo-leninismo. (da un discorso a Varsavia, 12 novembre 1968)”
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“È ben noto che l'Unione sovietica ha fatto non poco per l'effettivo rafforzamento della sovranità e dell'indipendenza dei paesi socialisti. (da un discorso a Varsavia, 12 novembre 1968)”
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“Gli Stati socialisti sostengono il rigoroso rispetto della sovranità di tutti i paesi. Noi ci schieriamo risolutamente contro l'intervento negli affari interni di qualsiasi Stato, contro la violazione della sua sovranità. (da un discorso a Varsavia, 12 novembre 1968)”
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1966· 3 entries
Won Gold Star medal (1966).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1966).
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The first such public trials since Stalin's reign, marked the reversion to a repressive cultural policy
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1965· 2 entries
That collectively came to be known within the Party as the "Kosygin reforms"
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Brezhnev directed his attentions to his remaining political rival, Alexei Kosygin
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1964· 2 entries
Took part in the removal of Nikita Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union and replaced him as First Secretary of the CPSU
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Career landmark: General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1982).
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1963· 2 entries
Brezhnev succeeded Frol Kozlov, another Khrushchev protégé, as Secretary of the Central Committee, thereby positioning himself as Khrushchev's likely successor
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Career landmark: Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1963–1964).
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1961).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1960–1964).
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1957· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1957–1982).
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1956· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1956).
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Before it became clear that the campaign would turn out to be disappointing
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Career landmark: Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1956–1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Career landmark: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (1955–1956).
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1952· 3 entries
Brezhnev met with Stalin who subsequently promoted him to the Communist Party's Central Committee as a candidate member of the Presidium (formerly the Politburo) and made him a member of the Secretariat
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And became a full member of the Politburo by 1957
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Career landmark: Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1952–1953).
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1950· 1 entry
Brezhnev became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union's supreme state organ of power
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1947).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the White Lion (1946).
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class (1945).
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Won Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945).
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1944· 3 entries
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1944).
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Won Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" (1944).
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Brezhnev was promoted to the rank of major general as the Soviets successfully pushed German forces out of Transcarpathia
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1943· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1943).
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Awarded Order of the Red Star (1943).
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1942· 3 entries
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1942).
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Won Medal "For the Defence of Odessa" (1942).
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Brezhnev was sent to the Caucasus as deputy head of political administration of the North Caucasus Front
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1939· 1 entry
Was appointed propaganda secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk party committee
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1936· 1 entry
Was appointed director of the Dniprodzerzhynsk Technical College and a year later he became Deputy Chairman of the Kamenskoye City Soviet
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1935· 2 entries
Studied at Dniprovsky State Technical University (1931–1935).
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But worked as an engineer for less than half a year before being drafted into the Red Army
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1930· 1 entry
But relinquished it just half a year later to move to Moscow to enroll at the Institute of Agricultural Machinery
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1929· 1 entry
Spending two years as a candidate before becoming a full Party member two years later
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1923· 2 entries
Brezhnev joined the Komsomol, the Bolshevik youth organization
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Before becoming an official party member in 1929
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1922· 1 entry
“December 30, 1922, is a truly historic date in the life of our state, an important milestone in the life of all the Soviet peoples, their great festival.”
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1913· 1 entry
Brezhnev enrolled in a parish school
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-12-19.
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