Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...

play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the age of 54. Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet ...

The Soviet Union's defense spending did not rise or ... to consume such a disproportionate share of resources. The General Secretary ignored their warnings, in large part because his authority ...

LEONID BREZHNEV (1906-1982): A member of the leadership of the Soviet Union from 1964, initially as first secretary of the Communist Party, then as general secretary. In the early 1970s he emerged ...

For four decades, Castro purposely stood at the center of the dangerous game the United States, the Soviet Union and sometimes ... out a rapprochement. When Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ...

They reminded me of the way photographs of the May Day parade in the old Soviet Union would be altered to ... against Milley got very real: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took away Milley ...