The USSR lost the argument in the end, as Leonid ... learn: Brezhnev also ordered the Amber Room rebuilt. In 1979, he commissioned a replica, based on drawings and black-and-white photos of ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

May 9 was a normal working day from 1947 until 1965, when then-Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ordered a 20th anniversary parade on Red Square, featuring veterans and historical weaponry.

In Spanish? "Brezhnev Biography" is a 1976 Soviet film that serves as a celebratory portrait of Leonid Brezhnev, portraying him as a beloved and charismatic leader. The film blends stirring ...

Cut to President Reagan sporting a cowboy hat and enjoying some shooting practice, using targets emblazoned with the face of Leonid Brezhnev. The Soviet leader, meanwhile, sinks bottles of vodka ...

EXCLUSIVE: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict. With nukes possibly in play, it was no ...

Viewers were fortunate to see the 2024 Armenian film ‘Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev" at the International Film Festival of Kerala 2024. The film, which faced challenges in Russia and received little ...

With the global superpowers on edge, the world turns to Sweden’s prime minister, Thorbjörn Fälldin, a former sheep farmer, to keep the peace between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S ...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev presides over the opening of the Olympic Games in Moscow. “O-O-O-O-O,” Brezhnev says. An aide pulls him by his elbow: “Comrade Brezhnev, these are the Olympic rings.

In 1940, France fell to Germany in World War II. Nazi and French leaders signed ... In 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pledge to try to avoid nuclear ...

Thursday’s Victory Day resembled less a tribute to the Soviet Union’s costly World War II triumph over Nazi Germany — in ... Since Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev made the day a public holiday in 1965, ...

Domestically, this is nostalgia. In the 1970s, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev created a cult of victory. Russia under Putin has continued the tradition. Abroad, this is intimidation. We are meant ...