Brezhnev

Brezhnev angrily said: we political bureau have thought about and we decided to send you to the sun at night.

In Brezhnev's time there was no formal opposition to Soviet power - merely a handful of dissidents and intellectuals.

But it petered out in the next few years as Brezhnev took a grip in Moscow.

Brezhnev began with a long speech extolling the virtue of his version of the nuclear treaty, a "clear-cut and lucid agreement" .

Leonid Brezhnev constructed private villas by prodigality , thus there were quite a few villas only on the outskirts of Moscow.

During the long Brezhnev period a tiny group of "four of five" Politburo insiders took all decisions behind closed doors, Kiselyov says.

Leonid Brezhnev did the same thing with Kruschev, but used an air force revolver to make his point.

At heart, Lukashenko remains a man of Russia's Brezhnev era: His secret police even still use the acronym KGB.

Nixon was not about to be bested by Brezhnev in philosophical discourse , however.

Brezhnev, he says, exuded "a sense of ominous danger emerging out of China" .

Stalin was also said to have been one of Brezhnev's heroes.

But the Brezhnev era is remembered, too, as a time of stagnation.

Was the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev really just an authoritarian regime, rather than a totalitarian one?

Brezhnev is said to have tolerated such ribaldry in the belief that it showed he was liked.

We had left a cowboy hat and a Western belt replete with toy gun and holster for Brezhnev in his cabin on the plane.

Osama bin Laden says George Bush, by prolonging the war in Iraq, is repeating the errors of Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

Undeterred, Brezhnev rambled on about its historical importance for the United States and the Soviet Union.

Further domestic and foreign relations disasters led to his replacement in 1964 by Leonid Brezhnev.

It would be, Brezhnev hoped, a Soviet triumph on the 50th anniversary of the Communist revolution.

Leonid Brezhnev is the only person in the USSR who was honoured with the Gold Star medal five times.

Brezhnev , similarly attired, collected me in a jeep driven, I was grateful to notice, by a game warden .

In a television interview Dmitry Peskov hailed Brezhnev as a "huge plus" for his country.

The political situation here in unstable. And Colonel Volgin is a member of the Brezhnev faction which seeks to topple my government.

He was profoundly depressed that he hadn't been able to persuade Brezhnev to cancel Komarov's launch.

And when I put a face to the East, I saw the deathly features of Leonid Brezhnev (or, even worse, his terrifying-looking wife, Viktoria).

People were accused grams of brezhnev listed mu, the tragic events listed by brezhnev's Tim reduced to an ordinary intelligence personnel.

Putin told Russian TV, "They say that the stagnation of the Brezhnev times will be back soon. "

Brezhnev began brightly enough, with the Soviet Union at the height of its prestige.

Brezhnev grumbled that I seemed constantly to stress what the agreement was not, rather than its positive aspects.

SPIEGEL: Monsieur Todd, in the middle of the Cold War, in the days of Leonid Brezhnev, you predicted the collapse of the Soviet system.

Another blare of trumpets signaled that the limousine carrying Brezhnev had entered the Southwest Gate .

May: Draft of new Constitution ready. Brezhnev is chairman of Constitutional Commission.

Keen hunter and former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had trouble with his aim in his later years.

Longtime Soviet politburo leader and general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev gave a 3-foot-long crystal drinking horn.

Brezhnev presided over another era of political and economic stagnation, the 1970s, sustained by a commodities boom and high oil prices.

In this spirit Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin's press secretary, recently talked up Leonid Brezhnev as a "huge plus" for the country.

Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev.

What do you think of the image of Brezhnev given here?

Brezhnev received the award in 1978, but later it was revoked for not meeting the requirements for the award.

Leonid Brezhnev becomes the Hero of the Soviet Union for the fourth time.

Chernenko, Brezhnev's personal chief of staff, made candidate member of Politburo.

His book takes its title from a Soviet doomsday machine first conceived under Brezhnev.

To mount pressure, Gromyko told Nixon that Brezhnev's return visit to America in 1973 was conditional on progress on the nuclear treaty.

A visit to Transdniester resembles nothing more than time travel back into Brezhnev-era Soviet Union. 2004.

Brezhnev made it very clear he wanted this to happen.

Leonid Brezhnev and PW Botha are consigned to the dustbin of history.

In San Clements, Brezhnev insisted on staying in the same compound as Nixon.

When I set out for Zavidovo on May 4, I was thus left with selling Brezhnev a draft.

In 1968, Russia's national pride, the first into space Yuri Gagarin died in the Brezhnev era a flying accident.

On Octyabrskaya Square in Dneprodzerzhinsk, they erected a monument to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev in 1976.

He has already outlasted Leonid Brezhnev (18 years) and is closing in fast on comrade Stalin (a whopping 31).

Nixon went to ruminate about how Brezhnev understood American power and Nixon in particular .

At one point Gagarin said, "I must go to see the main man [Brezhnev] personally. "

The new, Brezhnev led, period of probing Soviet assertiveness is more dangerous because it has been better prepared.

In Soviet times Brezhnev talked about socialist democracy every day.

Soviet Reappraisal of Stalin in the Time of Brezhnev

Brezhnev occupies one floor in the rear wing of a heavy old nine-story apartment building at 26 Kutuzovsky Prospeckt;

On the Issue of "Privileged Bureaucratic Class" in the Timed of Brezhnev

In Brezhnev time, party's ruling ability serious decline;