Meaning of Brezhnev | Babel Free

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1. A transliteration of the Russian surname Бре́жнев (Bréžnev); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Leonid Brezhnev.
2. A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Бре́жнєв (Bréžnjev)

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“Victory Day was first celebrated in the Soviet Union to mark⟳ the 20th anniversary of the German defeat⟳ in 1965. What had until then been just another workday became a public holiday which, as Russian historian Kirill Kobrin argues, was used from the outset as a political tool, with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev keen to use⟳ the event as a means of boosting the USSR’s image internationally.”

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