Leonid Brezhnev Era:
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-Leonid Brezhnev led Soviet Union from 1964-1982
-Many thin this was a period of deterioration for USSR to part "apparatchiks" left over from the Stalin regime to return to the old status quo
-Made famous the Brezhnev doctrine:
"It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"
-He makes this while intervening Czechoslovakia in 1968
-Many thin this was a period of deterioration for USSR to part "apparatchiks" left over from the Stalin regime to return to the old status quo
-Made famous the Brezhnev doctrine:
"It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"
-He makes this while intervening Czechoslovakia in 1968
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Leonid Brezhnev was in charge of the USSR from 1964-1982 and decided to de-stalinize and even correct the history books.
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"God will not forgive us if we fail." -Leonid Brezhnev
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How would Russia have been different if Brezhnev hadn't been in power?
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