Nikita Khrushchev
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3 days ago · On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 75 after suffering heart failure following years of serious ailments.
- November 10–15, 1982
- Yuri Andropov
15 hours ago · In 1964, the Kremlin circle stripped him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. Khrushchev was born in 1894 in a village in western Russia. He was employed as a metal worker during his youth, and he was a political commissar during the Russian Civil War.
- 1941–45
- CPSU (1918–1964)
1 day ago · Novotný then invited the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, to Prague that December, seeking support; Brezhnev, however, was surprised at the extent of the opposition to Novotný and so he rather supported his removal.
- 5 January – 21 August 1968 (7 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Normalization in Czechoslovakia
15 hours ago · And while Putin hailed their "warm and comradely" talks, their embrace still stopped well short of the full "socialist fraternal kiss" favoured by leaders such the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev at the height of the Cold War.
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15 hours ago · In the first years after Leonid Brezhnev came to power in 1964, repression against regime critics was comparatively mild. A number of people who were not prepared to directly confront the regime committed acts of moral resistance, such as writing open appeals to the government to advocate for a cause. A whole letter-writing movement emerged.
15 hours ago · Against the wall of the East Side Gallery, Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker share a kiss. Few neighbourhoods illustrate Berlin's revolutionary streak with such vividness as Kreuzberg, and the independent, counter-cultural spirit of its landscape runs through the heart of XJAZZ!.
