Leonid Breshnev: News Report of His Death - November 10, 1982

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  • Soviet Prime Minister, Leonid Breshnev, has died. He was 75 years old.
    Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 - 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the governing Communist Party (1964-1982) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1960-1964, 1977-1982). His 18-year term as general secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. While Brezhnev's rule was characterised by political stability and notable foreign policy successes, it was also marked by corruption, inefficiency, economic stagnation, and rapidly growing technological gaps with the West.

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  • @mkl62
    @mkl62 5 місяців тому +10

    November 10, 1982. The same day that my beloved aunt died. Ironically, she and Breshnev were the same age. I miss those 4 Milky Way bars at Christmas. We will never forget you, Aunt Katie.

  • @thunderbird1921
    @thunderbird1921 2 роки тому +41

    And thus began one of the most frustrating periods in Cold War history for the American diplomats. Two more Soviet leaders dead within three years, and each time relationships would have to start all over again. As Reagan finally vented in exasperation, "How can I make peace with the Russians when they keep dying on me?"

    • @antoniosilvestro9045
      @antoniosilvestro9045 Рік тому +6

      Soviet Union had 18 years of stability and then torn apart by that recidivist Gorbachev who succeeded Chernenko.

    • @atulvaibhav5376
      @atulvaibhav5376 Рік тому +4

      @@antoniosilvestro9045 Stability yeah more like peace of a graveyard.

    • @antoniosilvestro9045
      @antoniosilvestro9045 Рік тому +2

      @@atulvaibhav5376 can you explain in proper English 😆 lol

    • @67marlins
      @67marlins 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@antoniosilvestro9045he did. You just can't comprehend basic English, instead needing cartoon faces.

    • @antoniosilvestro9045
      @antoniosilvestro9045 2 місяці тому

      @@67marlins western terrorists caused two world wars and then formed NATO and the EU and keep invading everyone like Iraq etc and nuked Japan and destabilised the Middle East and the planet and slaughtered millions in concentration camps and divided Korea and Ireland and India etc

  • @nawumchik
    @nawumchik Рік тому +14

    his lastname is not "breshniv", he is "brezhnev"

  • @cliphound80
    @cliphound80 2 роки тому +17

    Crazy the deaths of the aging leaders of the Soviet Union popping off one after the other in the space of a few short years.First Leonid Brezhnev in 82, then Yuri Andropov in 84, then Konstantin Chernenko in March of 1985.

    • @Brewer03
      @Brewer03 Рік тому +6

      Ustinov, Tsvigun, Suslov, Kosygin, Masherov, Kulakov, Pelshe. Those people were members of Politburo, and they died (especially unordinary Masherov and Kulakov) as leaders of USSR. Not only the head of the state, but governors were also very old. At the moment, when Brezhnev died, Scherbitsky, Gorbachev and Romanov were the youngest Politburo members, and future leader of independent Russia Boris Yeltsin took a part in central committee of communist party of Soviet Union. He had met Brezhnev personaly and had some influence on politburo and Brezhnev, he also was leading the Sverdlovsk oblast, now it is Yekaterinburg.

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588
    @robertortiz-wilson1588 Рік тому +4

    Such a good news announcement!Accurate, fair, and with no over the top sensationalism!
    Very strange indeed.

    • @waverider227
      @waverider227 22 дні тому

      Strange for today but normal back then.

  • @coreyoldknow272
    @coreyoldknow272 Рік тому +2

    That was the start of the end of Cole War

  • @brianrunyon266
    @brianrunyon266 2 роки тому +7

    His health took a bad turn at the start of the year, and he'd had heart issues starting in '73', I believe.

  • @HoosierHugh317
    @HoosierHugh317 6 місяців тому +1

    He was a Ukrainian, one of many that headed the CCCP.

  • @StephenLuke
    @StephenLuke 10 місяців тому +3

    RIP
    Leonid Brezhnev
    (1906-1982)

  • @maranatha_1968
    @maranatha_1968 Рік тому +5

    Rest in peace Leonid...

  • @timtaylor9979
    @timtaylor9979 Рік тому +1

    True, even though he looked like The Wreck of the Hesperus, it still was met with a little surprise by the west. I was with NATO in Germany, and we went on alert. (A coup, perhaps?).

  • @isd8894
    @isd8894 Рік тому +4

    So sad. The beginning of the end for the USSR, and therefore the world.

    • @Lionfish5656
      @Lionfish5656 11 місяців тому +1

      But he did help to bring the multipolar world we're entering now.

    • @tyronebiggums8660
      @tyronebiggums8660 2 місяці тому +2

      The world still exists, and is much more prosperous now that the USSR is gone