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The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

— Leonid Brezhnev Sputnik : Digest (1967)

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Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

Our Friends Speak : Greetings to the 25th CPSU Congress (1976)

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.

Selected Speeches and Writings (1980)

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Indefensible Weapons : The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism (1992)

Today progress is so swift in all fields that the education received by young people is only a foundation that requires the constant acquisition of knowledge.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

Brezhnev Reconsidered (2002)

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