Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...

In Spanish? "Brezhnev Biography" is a 1976 Soviet film that serves as a celebratory portrait of Leonid Brezhnev, portraying him as a beloved and charismatic leader. The film blends stirring ...

What is it about Washington liberals and Democratic leaders that made them so anxious for a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1970s and ...

The problem started at the top, Chernyaev describing party leader Leonid Brezhnev as “completely senile.” (p. 1) While little evidence to exists to suggest that President Donald Trump suffers ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, December 1. /TASS/. The Oktyabrsky District Court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has rejected a lawsuit filed by Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of late Soviet leader Leonid ...

TASS/. Local officials of the town of Kamenskoye in Ukraine’s eastern Dnepropetrovsk district decided to put off dismantling a monument to ex-Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev due to a lack of ...

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

Novotny asked the Soviet leader, Brezhnev, for help to crackdown on the protests, but Brezhnev refused, and in early 1968 Novotny was replaced as Communist Party Secretary by Alexander Dubcek.

Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence ...