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The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of freedom and an imperial obsession with imposing communism on every corner ...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the governing Communist Party (1964–1982) and as Chairman of the ...