Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, cover of Liberation, 1982. Artist: Unknown

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Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, cover of Liberation, 1982. Brezhnev (1907-1982) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and effective ruler of the USSR from 1964 until his death in 1982. Cover of the edition of the paper published the day after his death.

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