Leonid Iljitsch Breschnew – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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Official portrait, 1972 (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Staatshoofden,_portretten,_Bestanddeelnr_925-6564.jpg

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December 19, 1906 in Kamjanske, Oblast Dniprodserschynsk, Ukraine
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November 10, 1982 in Moskau
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Official portrait, 1972 (Source: Wikimedia)

Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Brezhnev's main patron. (Source: Wikimedia)

Brezhnev (center) partaking in a hunting outing with Khrushchev (far left) and Finnish president Urho Kekkonen (second from right) in 1963, one year before Khrushchev's ousting. (Source: Wikimedia)

Brezhnev following a speech to the 1968 Komsomol Central Committee plenary session in his capacity as General Secretary. By then, he had reestablished the post as the top authority in both name and practice. (Source: Wikimedia)

Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the KGB who presided over the pervasive crackdown under Brezhnev's regime (Source: Wikimedia)

USSR postage stamp of 1979, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Virgin Lands Campaign (Source: Wikimedia)

Brezhnev at International Women's Day celebrations, 1973 (Source: Wikimedia)

A Soviet T-55 tank catches fire while battling Czech protesters during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. (Source: Wikimedia)

North Vietnamese troops pose in front of a Soviet S-75 missile launcher (Source: Wikimedia)

Deng Xiaoping (left) and Brezhnev (right) with Nicolae Ceaușescu in Bucharest, 1965 (Source: Wikimedia)

Brezhnev (seated right) and U.S. President Gerald Ford signing a joint communiqué on the SALT treaty in Vladivostok. (Source: Wikimedia)

Brezhnev (second from left in front row) poses for the press in 1975 during negotiations for the Helsinki Accords (Source: Wikimedia)

Brezhnev at a Party congress in East Berlin in 1967 (Source: Wikimedia)

Official portrait of Brezhnev during his years in power (Source: Wikimedia)

Photo of an ailing Brezhnev (second from left) on 1 June 1981, a year before his death (Source: Wikimedia)

Brezhnev's tomb in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis (Source: Wikimedia)

Caricature of Brezhnev by Edmund S. Valtman (Source: Wikimedia)

Young Brezhnev with his wife Viktoria, 1927 (Source: Wikimedia)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A0008EA6 (Version 6.1.0 of November 30, 2024)
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