Leonid Brezhnev
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).
Fotos
Filme (36)
The Helsinki Effect
2025 · Self (archive footage)
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё
2020 · Self (archive footage)
1979: Big Bang of the Present
2019 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Going to Hell
2019 · Self (Archive Footage)
Agnelli
2017 · Self (archive footage)
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Burden of the Gypsies
2016 · Himself (archive)
Palme
2012 · Self (archive footage)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Space Sailors
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Disco and Atomic War
2009 · Self (archive footage)
:03 from Gold
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Case of Joseph Brodsky
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Red Star Over Khyber
1984 · Self
Memory of the People
1982 · (archive footage)
Kyiv Symphony
1982 · Self (archive footage)
Trial
1982 · Self (archive footage)
O Sport, You Are Peace!
1981 · Self - Opens the Olympics
Karpov Plays with Karpov
1980 · Self
Incendiaries from the Celestial Empire
1979 · Self (archive footage)
Beijing's Cards
1979 · Self (archive footage)
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979 · Self (archive footage)
Spring in Phnom Penh
1979 · Self (archive footage)
Maoism: A Tragedy for China
1978 · Self (archive footage)
The Story of the Communist
1976 · Himself
The Society of the Spectacle
1974 · Self (archive footage)
Venceremos, solidaridad
1973 · Self (archive footage)
A Time For Peace
1973 · Self
Czechoslovakia 1968
1969 · Self (archive footage)
People and Space
1968 · Self - Archive Footage
Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti
1967
