Brezhnev
Le·o·nid Il·yich [ley-uh-nid il-yich; Russian lyi-uh-nyeetee-lyeech], /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/, 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
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There were, for example, a lot of jokes about Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Chernenko, and Andropov.
Inside ‘Leviathan’: Russian Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Award-Winning Anti-Putin Cannes Film | Richard Porton | May 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNobody remembers who presided over the 2008 Games in Beijing and only a few might recall Brezhnev in Moscow.
Putin’s Sochi and Hitler’s Berlin: The Love Affair Between Dictators and the Olympic Games. | Garry Kasparov | February 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI am old enough to remember Brezhnev and the hierarchs of the Kremlin in the dissident era.
Assad is not Brezhnev, and frankly, the stakes are not nearly as great.
Alex Jones is a representative Second Amendment enthusiast in the same way that Leonid Brezhnev is an archetypal progressive.
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Leading the Soviet delegation were Brezhnev, general secretary of the Soviet party, and four other high-ranking officials.
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British Dictionary definitions for Brezhnev
/ (ˈbrɛʒnɛf, Russian ˈbrjɛʒnɪf) /
Leonid Ilyich (lɪaˈnit ˈilitʃ). 1906–82, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1977–82); general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1964–82)
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