Yuri Brezhnev

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Yuri Brezhnev
Юрий Брежнев
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First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade
In office
1979–1986
Personal details
Born
Yuri Leonidovich Brezhnev

(1933-03-31)31 March 1933
Kamenskoye, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
(present-day Ukraine)
Died3 August 2013(2013-08-03) (aged 80) [1]
Moscow, Russia
Nationality Soviet and Russian
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union
SpouseLyudmila Vladimirovna Brezhneva
Relations Galina Brezhneva (sister)
ChildrenAndrei Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev
Parent(s) Leonid Brezhnev
Viktoria Denisova

Yuri Leonidovich Brezhnev ( ‹See Tfd› Russian: Юрий Леонидович Брежнев; 31 March 1933 – 3 August 2013) was a Soviet politician and the son of Soviet politician and longtime Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Viktoria Denisova.

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Life and career

Yuri with his sister Galina in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR (1942) Deti L. I. Brezhneva - Galia i Iura. Alma-Ata. 1942 god.jpg
Yuri with his sister Galina in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR (1942)

Before his retirement, Brezhnev was a Candidate Member of the Central Committee (CC) of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and worked as a First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. [2] After his forced retirement following allegations of embezzlement and corruption, Brezhnev became a pensioner. [3] Soon after becoming a pensioner, he was brutally beaten and arrested by police, and all his belongings were confiscated. [2]

In contrast to his sister, Galina Brezhneva, who was known for her temper and self-gratification, Brezhnev was a shadowy figure who disliked public attention. His friends and colleagues claim that he only maintained relations with fellow students of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Brezhnev was not active in politics following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. [4]

After the Soviet Union's collapse, he stopped making public appearances, and rejected an offer made by the Russian government to cooperate with them. In 2000, Brezhnev rejected an offer to appear on a documentary detailing the "Era of Stagnation", an era some believe Brezhnev's father started. He denied these allegations, claiming that his father had nothing to do with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. [5]

He was married to Lyudmila Vladimirovna. She gave birth to two sons, Andrei and Leonid. [6] Andrei Brezhnev (15 March 1961 – 10 July 2018) accused the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) of deviating from communist ideology and launched the unsuccessful All-Russian Communist Movement in the late 1990s. [7] He was Secretary General of the All-Russian Communist Movement in 1998. By 2004, Andrei had become a well-established member of the CPRF. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Шамир, Исраэль (2 September 2013). Первый раз в первый класс (in Russian). Zavtra. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 Medvedev, Roy. Галина Леонидовна Брежнева [Galina Leonidovna Brezhneva] (in Russian). pseudology.org. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  3. ↑ Nikolaevna Vasilʹeva, Larisa (1994). Kremlin wives. Arcade Publishing. p. 221. ISBN   1-55970-260-5.
  4. 1 2 Как живут дети, внуки и правнуки брежневского Политбюро [Brezhnev is in office, and Suslov, beats the drum]. Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). 21 October 2004. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  5. ↑ Kasatkin, Oksana (1 April 2005). Брежнев и другие [Brezhnev, and others]. Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  6. ↑ Без портфеля. [Without portfolio. L.I. Brezhnev] (in Russian). gazeta.aif.ru. 4 November 2002. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  7. ↑ Myers, Steven Lee (10 August 2002). "The Saturday Profile; A Different Kind of Brezhnev in the Making". The New York Times . Retrieved 16 December 2010.
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