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Created page with "Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Party and Chairman of the Presidium (President), died November 10, 1982, at the age of 75. Following the fall of Khrushchev in October 1964, Brezhnev began his drive for power which culminated in his holding the highest offices in the USSR. In 1968, as justification for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he formulated the “Brezhnev doctrine” stating that the USSR could intervene in the domestic affairs of any So..."
