Brezhnev

[ brezh-nef; Russian brye-zhnyif ]

noun

1. Le·o·nid Il·yich [ley, -, uh, -nid , il, -yich, lyi-uh-, nyeet, ee-, lyeech], 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.

Brezhnev

/ ˈbrɛʒnɛf; ˈbrjɛʒnɪf /

noun

1. BrezhnevLeonid Ilyich19061982MRussianPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: head of state Leonid Ilyich (lɪaˈnit ˈilitʃ). 1906–82, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1977–82); general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1964–82)

Example Sentences

There were, for example, a lot of jokes about Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Chernenko, and Andropov.

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Nobody remembers who presided over the 2008 Games in Beijing and only a few might recall Brezhnev in Moscow.

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I am old enough to remember Brezhnev and the hierarchs of the Kremlin in the dissident era.

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Assad is not Brezhnev, and frankly, the stakes are not nearly as great.

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Alex Jones is a representative Second Amendment enthusiast in the same way that Leonid Brezhnev is an archetypal progressive.

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Leading the Soviet delegation were Brezhnev, general secretary of the Soviet party, and four other high-ranking officials.

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