Word: brezhnevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because within weeks Brezhnev was dead...
...same time, the Kremlin made clear that it intended to use the negotiations as a way of inducing the West Europeans to postpone acceptance of the new missiles, thus missing the deadline that NATO had set for itself. "Both sides," Brezhnev declared during a visit to Bonn in November 1981, "should, for as long as the negotiations last, refrain from stationing new medium-range systems in Europe and from modernizing already existing ones...
...conclusion about the state of affairs in the Soviet Union. In the year since he assumed power, Andropov has failed to inject the country with a new and forceful sense of direction. Instead, the Soviet Union has fallen back into the same kind of drift and indecision that characterized Brezhnev's waning years...
...country still in a period of post-Brezhnev transition...
...took Khrushchev and Brezhnev some time to acquire the great power they finally did exercise when they were well entrenched in their positions. Andropov has had only a year, and it certainly appears that he is not in good health. So I would say we are seeing a form of transition...