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When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

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Leonid Brezhnev
Age: 75 †
Born: 1906
Born: December 19
Died: 1982
Died: November 10
Engineer
Former General Secretary Of The Central Committee Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
Land Surveyor
Military Personnel
Politician
Kamyanske
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
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