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Leonid Illich Brezhnev
(19 December 1906 ? 10 November 1982)
[1]
was a
leader
of the
Soviet Union
. Born in 1906, Brezhnev was First Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
. He was effectively the
dictator
of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982.
During the
Second World War
, Brezhnev was a Political Commissar. He supervised various military units. There, he became a friend of
Nikita Khrushchev
.
[2]
Unlike Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union before him, Brezhnev did not agree with the process of
destalinization
, and did not support
reform
. Under Brezhnev, the Soviet
economy
mostly consisted of
military
spending. Because the country's
resources
were going to the armed forces, as they had under
Joseph Stalin
in wartime,
consumer
wants were ignored. The
standard of living
began to fall.
[3]
[4]
Brezhnev died of a
heart attack
on November 10, 1982.
[5]
At over 18 years, Brezhnev was longest ruling Russian Ruler since Stalin until
Vladimir Putin
broke this record in 2017.
List of wars and uprisings in Europe:
WW2 ; Great Patriotic War
(1941-1945),
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
,
1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion Of Czechoslovakia
List of wars in Asia:
Korean War
,
Vietnam War
,
Cambodian Civil War
,
Cambodian?Vietnamese War
,
Soviet?Afghan War
(1950-1982)
List of wars in Africa and Middle East :
Nigerian Civil War
,
Angolan Civil War
,
Iran?Iraq War
(1967-1982)