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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>]]
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>
Brezhnev's ethnicity was listed as Ukrainian in official Soviet documents.<ref>[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/a/ac/Brezhnev_LI_ListKadr_1942.jpg L.I. Brezhnev military card]</ref><ref>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brezhnev_LI_OrKrZn_NagrList_1942.jpg</ref><ref>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brezhnev_LI_Pasport_1947.jpg</ref>
==Early life==
Brezhnev was born on December 19, 1906 in Kamenskoye, now Kamianske, Ukraine.
==World War II==
When the Germans occupied [[Ukraine]] in 1942, Brezhnev was sent to the [[Caucasus]] as deputy head of political administration of the Transcaucasian Front. In April 1943 he became head of the Political Department of the 18th Army. Later that year, the 18th Army became part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, as the [[Red Army]] regained the initiative and advanced westward through Ukraine. The Front's senior political commissar was [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who had supported Brezhnev's career since the prewar years. Brezhnev had met Khrushchev in 1931, shortly after joining the Party, and as he continued his rise through the ranks, he became Khrushchev's protégé. At the end of the war in Europe, Brezhnev was chief political commissar of the 4th Ukrainian Front, which entered [[Prague]] in May 1945, after the German surrender.
==General Secretary==
[[File:Ted and Brezhnev.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Sen. [[Ted Kennedy]] [[colluding]] with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to interfere in the [[1984 Presidential election]].<ref>https://spectator.org/the-kremlins-dupe-ted-kennedys-russia-romance/</ref>]]
[[File:Ted and Brezhnev.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Sen. [[Ted Kennedy]] [[colluding]] with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to interfere in the [[1984 Presidential election]].<ref>https://spectator.org/the-kremlins-dupe-ted-kennedys-russia-romance/</ref>]]
Brezhnev initially continued Khruschev's policy of peaceful co-existence and joined with U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] in [[detente]] while continuing active support for armed [[national liberation movement]]s around the world. In 1980 the Soviet [[Politburo]] presided over by Brezhnev initiated the [[Soviet-Afghan War]] in an effort to create a Soviet Socialist Republic of Afghanistan along [[Atheism|atheist]] and [[secular]] models, subservient to the Soviet Union as another satellite-client state.
Brezhnev initially continued Khruschev's policy of peaceful co-existence and joined with U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] in [[detente]] while continuing active support for armed [[national liberation movement]]s around the world. In 1980 the Soviet [[Politburo]] presided over by Brezhnev initiated the [[Soviet-Afghan War]] in an effort to create a Soviet Socialist Republic of Afghanistan along [[Atheism|atheist]] and [[secular]] models, subservient to the Soviet Union as another satellite-client state.