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[[File:Leonid Brežněv.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|Leonid Brezhnev]]
[[File:Leonid Brežněv.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|Leonid Brezhnev]]
[[File:Brezhnev bbc.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Leonid Brezhnev]] head of the Soviet Union and remained so until his death in 1982.
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Brezhnev had a stroke in March 1982 and died of a heart attack in November.<ref>http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1883.html</ref>]]
'''Leonid Brezhnev''' (1906 - 1982) was part of an internal coup that stripped the [[Soviet Union]]'s leader, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], of power in 1964 because of Khruschev's reform efforts. Brezhnev became the new head of the Soviet Union and remained so until his death in 1982.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>
'''Leonid Brezhnev''' (1906 - 1982) was part of an internal coup that stripped the [[Soviet Union]]'s leader, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], of power in 1964 because of Khruschev's reform efforts. Brezhnev became the new head of the Soviet Union and remained so until his death in 1982.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>