In May ’68, Moscow sent its tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” and gave us “The Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty.” To wit, once the Communist system has been ...

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...

The problem started at the top, Chernyaev describing party leader Leonid Brezhnev as “completely senile.” (p. 1) While little evidence to exists to suggest that President Donald Trump suffers ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, December 1. /TASS/. The Oktyabrsky District Court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has rejected a lawsuit filed by Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of late Soviet leader Leonid ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

SIMFEROPOL, July 11. /TASS/. Andrey Brezhnev, the grandson of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, has died in Crimea of heart attack, a local party official told TASS. "Yes, indeed, he has ...

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

"We have Brezhnev, who was senile and alcoholic; Ronald Reagan, who was a new President at the time; and we had NATO. In between, we had a submarine that had hit the shore a stone's throw from ...

Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence ...

Novotny asked the Soviet leader, Brezhnev, for help to crackdown on the protests, but Brezhnev refused, and in early 1968 Novotny was replaced as Communist Party Secretary by Alexander Dubcek.

This was the first time a President of the USA had been in the Soviet Union since 1945. Nixon met Brezhnev, leader of the USSR. In the 1970s, the Soviet economy was in trouble and had to look to ...