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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.

— Leonid Brezhnev Selected Speeches and Writings (1980)

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Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

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

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.

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

Sputnik : Digest (1967)

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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