Leonid Brezhnev

1. Leonid Brezhnev

* Leonid Brezhnev
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2. LEONID BREZHNEV

*Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
was the General Secretary
of the Central Committee
(CC) of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union
(CPSU), presiding over the
country from 1964 until
his death in 1982.
*LEONID BREZHNEV

3.

Politics
*Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for
defense industry from February 1956 to July
1960, in 1956-1957 a candidate member of the
Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU
since 1957, a member of the Presidium (since
1966 — the Politburo) of the CPSU Central
Committee. From may 1960 to July 1964 he was
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR. At the same time from June
1963 to October 1964, Secretary of the Central
Committee of the CPSU.

4. Famous kiss

*Famous kiss

5.

*The essence is that the
leader of the USSR
embraced his «victim» firmly
and kissed on the right
cheek at first, then on the
left cheek and finally he
kissed on the lips. So, that’s
why it is used to be called
«Triple Brezhnev».

6.

7. Some more facts about famous kisses

1. The only American president who was
«awarded» the kiss was Jimmy Carter.
2. The most famous kiss (with Honecker) was
impinted on the Berlin Wall.
3. The photography which captures Leonid
Brezhnev and Indira Gandhi’s kiss takes
honorable place in her apartment, which is
converted into museum now.
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Some more facts about
famous kisses

8. Those ones who managed to dodge the kiss:

* Those ones who managed to dodge
the kiss:
1. Margaret Thatcher ( 1971)
2. Fidel Castro (1974)
3. Nicolae Ceausescu (the only man who refused
the kiss directly)

9. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

*THANKS FOR YOUR
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