leonid brezhnev in English

noun

(1906-1982) Soviet leader and statesman, president of the Soviet Union (1960-1964, 1977-1982), first secretary of the Communist Party

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1. In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his position of power and replaced with Leonid Brezhnev.

2. Leonid Brezhnev did the same thing with Kruschev, but used an air force revolver to make his point.

3. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT I treaty to limit the development of strategic weapons.

4. The project was reportedly initiated by academician Yuri Ovchinnikov, who convinced General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev that development of biological weapons was necessary.

5. The cover of the influential Czech weekly Reflex showed Mr. Obama kissing Leonid Brezhnev, along with the warning, "dangerous kisses with Moscow."

6. In the years following Gorbachev's ascension to the Politburo, three Soviet leaders — Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko — died in short succession.

7. Yuri Andropov (1914-1984) was a former diplomat and KGB chief who became Soviet leader in late 1982, after the death of Leonid Brezhnev.

8. The story begins around 19 when Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, decided to stage a spectacular midspace rendezvous between two Soviet spaceships.

9. October 14: Leonid Brezhnev succeeds Khrushchev to become General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union October 16: China tests its first atomic bomb.

10. While Latvia was part of the Soviet Union, Jūrmala was a favorite holiday-resort and tourist destination for high-level Communist Party officials, particularly Leonid Brezhnev and Nikita Khrushchev.

11. As a part of this strategy, he negotiated the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (culminating in the SALT I treaty) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

12. Hanzelka and Zikmund had initially planned to travel around the world, but they ran afoul of the Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev in May 1965, when, as part of their second trip, they delivered a detailed and critical report of the poverty and political corruption they saw in the Soviet Union in 1963 and 1964.