Leonid Brezhnev (World Leader) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Union. His 18-year term as Secretary General was the second after Joseph Stalin in time. While Brezhnev's reign was characterized by political stability and notable successes in foreign policy, it was also marked by corruption, inefficiency, economic stagnation and public loopholes. Brezhnev was born into a working-class Russian family in Kamenskoye, in the Yekaterinoslav district of the Russian Empire. After the results of the October Revolution were finalized with the creation of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev joined the Communist Party's Youth League in 1923 before becoming a full member of the party in 1929. OK_MTZ_MT ! Leonid Brezhnev catalog OK_TM_VZ! Assassination of Leonid Brezhnev - An assassination plot was made against Leonid Brezhnev on January 22, 1969, when a defector from the Soviet army, Viktor Ilyin, shot a gunshot at the convoy carrying the leader Soviet religion through Moscow. OK_TM_VZ! Post-Stalin Directory of the Soviet Union - This is a selected bibliography of books and articles in English about the post-Stalin era of Soviet history. A brief selection of English translations of the main sources is included. OK_TM_VZ! Heads of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! The governors of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast OK_TM_VZ! Heads of state of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! Recipient of Order Ho Chi Minh OK_TM_VZ! Winner of the Medal of Victory OK_TM_VZ! Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic OK_TM_VZ! Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria OK_TM_VZ! Order Receiver of the Republic of Hungary OK_TM_VZ! Politicians of the Ukrainian Socialist Republic OK_TM_VZ! Seventh member of the Soviet Union gathering OK_TM_VZ! Ninth convened members of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! Eighth member of the Soviet Union summons of the Federation OK_TM_VZ! The fifth member of the summons of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! Sixth member of the Soviet Union summons of the Federation OK_TM_VZ! Tenth summon of members of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! Brezhnev family OK_TM_VZ! Politicians of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan OK_TM_VZ! Order Recipient Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union), 2nd Class OK_TM_VZ! The Great Cross of the Medal of Merit of the Republic of Poland OK_TM_VZ! Russians in Ukraine OK_TM_VZ! Fourth summoned members of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! The Marshals of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! Georgi Dimitrov's Order Recipient OK_TM_VZ! Commander of the Order of the Star of Romania OK_TM_VZ! People in the Vietnam War OK_TM_VZ! Third summoned members of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! People in the Soviet-Afghan War OK_TM_VZ! Grand Crosses of the Order of the Sun of Peru OK_TM_VZ! Military Generals (Soviet Union) OK_TM_VZ! Recipient Order of Sukhbaatar OK_TM_VZ! White Lion's Cross OK_TM_VZ! Members of the Soviet Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! Lenin Peace Prize winners OK_TM_VZ! Buried at the cemetery at the Kremlin Wall OK_TM_VZ! Cold War Men OK_TM_VZ! Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta OK_TM_VZ! Politburo Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union OK_TM_VZ! Russian Communist OK_TM_VZ! Karl Marx's Order Recipient OK_TM_VZ! Soviet Engineer OK_TM_VZ! Award Winner Lenin OK_TM_VZ! Hero of socialist labor OK_TM_VZ! Red Star Medal Recipient

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