set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, March 15, 1966", "The Times, March 30, 1968", "The Times, Aug 21, 1968", "The Times, Dec 27, 1979", "The Times, Dec 28, 1979", "The Times, Dec 14, 1981"], [0, "The Times, Nov 12, 1982", "Sunday Times, Sep 4, 1988", "The Times, Sep 8, 1988"]]
set gName = getat(["Brezhnev"],1)
@[]#BREZHNEV HAS STALIN'S ROLE IN NEW POLITBURO#TOUGH NEW LINE BY BREZHNEV#RUSSIANS MARCH INTO CZECHOSLOVAKIA#LARGE RUSSIAN FORCE IN AFGHANISTAN#AFGHAN PRESIDENT EXECUTED AFTER COUP#POLAND SHUTS DOOR ON DEMOCRACY @[]#BREZHNEV HAS DIED IN MOSCOW#BREZHNEV SON-IN-LAW FACES BRIBE TRIAL#BRAIN-DEAD BREZHNEV RULED FOR SIX YEARS
Brezhnev was the son of a Ukrainian steelworker. Once he became powerful, his entire extended family benefitted from many privileges undreamed of by ordinary Russians: chauffeured cars, vast holiday homes, luxury food #A vain man with an undistinguished war record, he wore 14 rows of medals on his uniform. Wits suggested that he should be buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, on the grounds that it was unknown if he had really been a soldier#Brezhnev won the Lenin Prize for Literature for his unreadable war memoirs. He also forced great writers such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Iosif Brodsky and Viktor Nekrasov to leave the Soviet Union.#Brezhnev, who ordered the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, awarded himself the Lenin Prize for Peace #A system of special psychiatric hospitals was opened during his era where dissidents were confined on the grounds that only the psychologically disturbed would criticise the Soviet state#Information-hungry dissidents in the Brezhnev era distributed copies of banned novels, poems and essays in individually typed "samizdat" (self-publishing) copies#By the end of the 1970s, Soviet money and arms had helped to establish ten Marxist states in Africa.#Brezhnev's collection of cars included a Citroen-Maserati, a Lincoln, various Mercedes and a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud#Brezhnev had five dachas, or country retreats, including a magnificent villa on the Black Sea. In one popular story, he showed them off to his mother. "Well, it's good, Leonid," she said nervously. "But what will happen if the Communists come back?"#According to one unlikely story, President Carter once asked Brezhnev if he collected jokes about himself. "Yes," replied Brezhnev, "I have two camps' full"
