Leonid Brezhnev

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Leonid Brezhnev (left) talking to U.S. President Richard Nixon
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Leonid Brezhnev (left) talking to U.S. President Richard Nixon

Leonid Brezhnev was a leader of the Soviet Union. Born in 1906, Brezhnev was dictator of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. During the Second World War in Russia, Brezhnev acted as a spy, instead he spied on his own countrymen for political reasons.