Question by AlisonGIRL-: Question about Brezhnev?
Who was Brezhnev, and how did he affect relations between the USSR and USA? We havent learnt about the cold war, so I need like a short summary 🙂
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Answer by cp_scipiom
chairman of the central committee of the soviet communist party- top dictator in his time. pretty nasty guy, ruled with an iron fist. Then he got sick and stayed sick for a long time- which paralysed the soviet union for a prolonged period. best thing he could have ever done.
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Tim D says
Brezhnev was soviet head of state from the fall of Khruschev in late 1964 to his death in November 1982. Generally, relations with the US improved during his tenure. Brezhnev wasn't as gung ho a communist or cold warrior as his predecessor, and accepted detente with the US around the time of Nixon's visit to the USSR in 1972. The detente was strained by the 1973 mideast war and the soviet invasion of Afghanistan toward the end of Brezhnev's rule, but it might have prevented a catastrophic war.