Leonid I. Brezhnev
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іллі́ч Бре́жнєв, 19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committeeof the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in duration. During Brezhnev's rule, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically, in part because of the expansion of the Soviet military during this time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth19 December 1906
CountryRussian Federation
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
God will not forgive us if we fail.
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.