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Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire - Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (1952-1953; 1956-1957), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1953; 1956-1960, 1963-1964). In 1960-1964 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR from 1964 to 1966. Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (3rd-10th convocations, 1950-1982). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Cavalier of eight Orders of Lenin. Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1973) and the Lenin Prize for Literature (1979). In 1978 he was awarded the Order of Victory (in 1989 this award was cancelled by decree signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as being contrary to the statute of the order). In total, Brezhnev had 117 Soviet and foreign state awards. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945 (political officer of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front).
Filmography
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Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades....
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Palme
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockho...
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an...
O Sport, You Are Peace!
A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summe...
Going to Hell
A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of magical TV sh...
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Easte...
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Agnelli
Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal sha...
Karpov Plays with Karpov
The film tells about the social activities of the world chess champion Anatoliy Karpov, his scientific work and...
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
A special that takes a look inside the White House.
Disco and Atomic War
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom whe...
:03 from Gold
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA suffered their first ever loss in Games competition,...
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
At the Winter Olympics of 1980, after two tense weeks amidst growing Cold War fears, the U.S. Olympic hockey te...
The Helsinki Effect
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but sure collap...
Czechoslovakia 1968
Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours...
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Soci...
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the U...
Л.И.Брежнев
The Story of the Communist
A Soviet biographical documentary devoted to Leonid I. Brezhnev, portraying his life “at work and at home” and...
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
Георгий Бурков. Гамлет советского кино
Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё
Space Sailors
They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Sa...
Venceremos, solidaridad
Anonymous short documentary released immediately after the Chilean military coup of 1973. It recapitulates the...
Red Star Over Khyber
Correspondent Richard Reeves reports on the ongoing struggle of the Afghan Muslim resistance against the Soviet...
Kyiv Symphony
The film is dedicated to the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.
Burden of the Gypsies
A film about the life of the Roma people, the most closed ethnic group today. Influential thieves' clans, baron...
Case of Joseph Brodsky
A 23-year-old man was tried for choosing poetry as his life's work. His poems and translations were professiona...
A Time For Peace
"This film documents President Nixon's 1972 trips to the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Iran, Po...
Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti
Memory of the People
Dedicated to the memory of L.I. Brezhnev.