Brezhnev Dies: Soviet Stagnation Loses Its Architect
Leonid Brezhnev left behind an eighteen-year reign that achieved nuclear parity with the United States but sowed the economic stagnation that would ultimately unravel the Soviet Union. His Brezhnev Doctrine, which justified military intervention to preserve communist regimes, crushed reform movements from Prague to Kabul.
November 10, 1982
44 years ago
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