Leonid Brezhnev

✶December 19, 1906

†November 10, 1982

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About their life

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.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

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