Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state), an important step in his rise to power, eventually taking control of the Soviet Union in 1964 when he became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a position he held until his death in 1982. More
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