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According to reliable sources, Suslov had ordered KGB General Semyon Tsvigun to halt the investigations in an effort to shield Brezhnev. Thwarted and angry, Tsvigun is said to have killed himself. Following Suslov's death, the KGB resumed its inquiries and the scandals exploded...
...Even Brezhnev has seemingly been ridiculed in an article published in the monthly literary magazine Avrora. Though the piece was ostensibly about an elderly writer "who refuses to die," many people read it as a gibe at Brezhnev, who has proved reluctant to step down from office in spite of his infirmities...
Some U.S. and British analysts believe that in attacking Brezhnev, some Politburo members are only trying to weaken Chernenko, who is evidently positioning himself for the top job. Though many Western experts still consider Kirilenko, the senior member of the Politburo after Brezhnev, more likely to take over following Brezhnev's resignation or death, Kirilenko has been absent from recent state functions. But whether Kirilenko or Chernenko wins out, either one of the septuagenarians could end up serving only as a caretaker while such "younger" Politburo members as Viktor Grishin, 67, and Grigori Romanov, 59, vie for position...
...intimate conversation with Leonid Brezhnev halfway up a tree in an exclusive forested hunting preserve to the northeast of Moscow. The unusually candid talk with the Soviet ruler, writes Henry Kissinger, offered a "single, brief glimpse of humanity that was not repeated while I was in office...
...only four days after H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman resigned as part of President Nixon's effort to put Watergate behind him, I was airborne for Moscow. At that time, Soviet-American relations were unusually free of tension. A summit between Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon was to take place in June on American soil; my few days in the Soviet Union in May were to prepare for it. On this trip I had a glimpse of Brezhnev that intrigues me to this day when I reflect on whether there can ever be a stable coexistence between...