The Dictator Files: Leonid Brezhnev - Statistics

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Question Answer % Correct
Present-day country he was born in Ukraine
92%
Country the Soviet Union invaded in 1979, in a spectacular failure Afghanistan
90%
Soviet Leader Brezhnev ousted and replaced Nikita Khrushchev
83%
Dictator whose Cultural Revolution Brezhnev called "self-destructive" Mao Zedong
71%
Communist Country he shipped $450 million worth of arms to North Vietnam
56%
KGB Leader who succeeded Brezhnev Yuri Andropov
56%
Revolt in Czechoslovakia he brutally crushed Prague Spring
54%
Soviet Republic whose Communist Party his predecessor made him second secretary of Kazakhstan
48%
Position in the Soviet Union's Communist Party held by Brezhnev General Secretary
44%
He wished to thaw relations with the US using a policy called: Détente
41%
Highest military rank in the Soviet Union, with Brezhnev and Stalin being the only Soviet leaders to hold it Marshal
28%
Polish dictator whose rival Solidarity Union Brezhnev helped suppress Wojciech Jaruzelski
12%
Military rank held at the end of World War II Major General
10%
Wife Viktoria Denisova
9%
Politician who Brezhnev was briefly in a power struggle with in the 1960s Alexei Kosygin
8%
Type of engineering study he took up in University Metallurgy
4%
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