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==General Secretary==
==General Secretary==
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. At the start of the detente agreement, Nixon and Brezhnev agreed to allow each other to address the other's people on a nationally televised broadcast.<ref>https://youtu.be/FeYhd6uNMpo?t=2385</ref>
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.
[[File:Ted and Brezhnev.jpeg|right|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|right|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 was the original author and planner of the nuclear freeze movement which became quite popular and fashionable in the West among [[liberal]]s such as [[Ted Kennedy]] and [[Barack Obama]] because of its anti-[[NATO]], anti-U.S. military spending and pro-socialist welfare stance.
Brezhnev was the original author and planner of the nuclear freeze movement which became quite popular and fashionable in the West among [[liberal]]s such as [[Ted Kennedy]] and [[Barack Obama]] because of its anti-[[NATO]], anti-U.S. military spending and pro-socialist welfare stance.