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Leonid Brezhnev
Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire — Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in t…
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire — Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (1952-1953; 1956-1957), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1953; 1956-1960, 1963-1964). In 1960-1964 — Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR from 1964 to 1966. Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (3rd-10th convocations, 1950-1982). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Cavalier of eight Orders of Lenin. Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1973) and the Lenin Prize for Literature (1979). In 1978 he was awarded the Order of Victory (in 1989 this award was cancelled by decree signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as being contrary to the statute of the order). In total, Brezhnev had 117 Soviet and foreign state awards. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945 (political officer of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front).
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2025
The Helsinki Effect
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
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2019
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Going to Hell
Movie Self (archive)
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2017
Agnelli
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
Код доступа
TV show Self
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2016
Legends of Cinema
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2016
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2016
Burden of the Gypsies
Movie Himself (archive)
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2012
Palme
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
Space Sailors
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Disco and Atomic War
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
:03 from Gold
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1996
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1991
Case of Joseph Brodsky
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1991
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1988
Л.И.Брежнев
TV show Леонид Ильич Брежнев
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1984
Red Star Over Khyber
Movie Self
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1982
Memory of the People
Movie (archive footage)
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1982
Kyiv Symphony
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1982
Trial
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1981
O Sport, You Are Peace!
Movie Self - Opens the Olympics
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1980
Karpov Plays with Karpov
Movie Self
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1979
Incendiaries from the Celestial Empire
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1979
Beijing's Cards
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1979
Spring in Phnom Penh
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1979
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1978
Maoism: A Tragedy for China
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1976
The Story of the Communist
Movie Himself
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1974
The Society of the Spectacle
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1973
Venceremos, solidaridad
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1973
A Time For Peace
Movie Self
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1969
Czechoslovakia 1968
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1968
People and Space
Movie Self - Archive Footage
