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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_suffix    = [[:en:Marshal of the Soviet Union|Marshal]] [[:en:Gold Star Medal|HSU]]
| name                = Leonid Brezhnev
| image               = Staatshoofden, portretten, Bestanddeelnr 925-6564.jpg
| caption             = Brezhnev in 1967
| office1             = [[:en:List of heads of state of the Soviet Union|President of the Soviet Union]]
| term_start1         = 7 May 1960
| term_end1           = 15 July 1964
| successor1          = [[Anastas Mikoyan]]
| predecessor1        = [[Kliment Voroshilov]]
| premier1            = [[Nikita Khrushchev]]
| term_start2         = 16 June 1977
| term_end2           = 10 November 1982
| predecessor2        = [[Nikolai Podgorny]]
| successor2          = [[Yuri Andropov]]
| premier2            = [[Alexei Kosygin]]<br>[[Nikolai Tikhonov]]
| office              = [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] <br><small>(as First Secretary from 1964 to 1966)</small>
| term_start          = 14 October 1964
| term_end            = 10 November 1982
| president           = [[Anastas Mikoyan]] <small>(until 1965)</small><br>[[Nikolai Podgorny]] <small>(until 1977)</small><br>Himself(until his death)
| premier             = [[Alexei Kosygin]] <small>(until 1980)</small><br>[[Nikolai Tikhonov]]
| predecessor         = [[Nikita Khrushchev]]
| successor           = [[Yuri Andropov]]
| birth_name          = Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1906|12|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[Kamianske]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1982|11|10|1906|12|19|df=yes}}
| death_place         = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_cause         = [[Heart Attack]]
| party               = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| spouse              = Viktoria Brezhneva
| children            = Yuri Brezhnev<br />Galina Brezhneva
| profession          = 
| residence           = 26 [[Kutuzovsky Prospekt]]
| signature           = Leonid Brezhnev Signature.svg
| footnotes           = 
| native_name         = {{No bold|Леонид Брежнев}}
}}

'''Leonid Illich Brezhnev''' (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&dq=Leonid+Ilyich+Brezhnev+10+november+1982&pg=PA91 "Profile of Leonid Brezhnev"]. ''An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996'', via Google Books.</ref> was a [[leader]] of the [[Soviet Union]]. Born in 1906, Brezhnev's title was "First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]". He was effectively the [[dictator]] of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. 

During the [[World War II|Second World War]], Brezhnev was a Political Commissar. He supervised various military units. There, he became a friend of [[Nikita Khrushchev]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JvxYLKQ09BwC|title=The Two Red Flags: European Social Democracy and Soviet Communism Since 1945|last=Childs|first=David|date=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-17181-6|language=en}}</ref> 

Unlike Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union before him, Brezhnev did not agree with the process of [[destalinization]], and did not support [[reform]]. Under Brezhnev, the Soviet [[economy]] mostly consisted of [[military]] spending. Because the country's [[resource]]s were going to the armed forces, as they had under [[Joseph Stalin]] in wartime, [[consumer]] wants were ignored. The [[standard of living]] began to fall.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W849vz7w-YMC|title=The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945|last=Hanson|first=Philip|date=2003|publisher=Longman|isbn=978-0-582-29958-0|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qR9jm_67uo4C|title=The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism|last1=Dowlah|first1=Alex F.|last2=Elliott|first2=John E.|date=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-95629-5|language=en}}</ref>

Brezhnev died of a [[heart attack]] on November 10, 1982.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-sSAQAAMAAJ|title=The Rise and Fall of Communism|last=Brown|first=Archie|date=2009-06-09|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-113879-9|language=en}}</ref> At over 18 years, Brezhnev was longest ruling Russian Ruler since Stalin until [[Vladimir Putin]] broke this record in 2017.

'''List of wars and uprisings in Europe: [[Great Patriotic War|WW2 ; Great Patriotic War]]''' (1941-1945),[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]],[[Warsaw Pact|1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion Of Czechoslovakia]]

'''List of wars in Asia: [[Korean War]],[[Vietnam War]],[[Cambodian Civil War]],[[Cambodian–Vietnamese War]],[[Soviet–Afghan War]]''' (1950-1982)

'''List of wars in Africa and Middle East : [[Nigerian Civil War]],[[Angolan Civil War]],[[Iran–Iraq War]]''' (1967-1982)

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[[Category:People of the Vietnam War]]
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