Brezhnev
/ˈbɹɛʒnɛv/ name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A transliteration of the Russian surname Бре́жнев (Bréžnev); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Leonid Brezhnev.
"Victory Day was first celebrated in the Soviet Union to mark the 20th anniversary of the German defeat in 1965. What had until then been just another workday became a public holiday which, as Russian historian Kirill Kobrin argues, was used from the outset as a political tool, with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev keen to use the event as a means of boosting the USSR’s image internationally."
- 2 A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Бре́жнєв (Bréžnjev)
Example
More examples"Russia produced lots of well-known men like Lenin, Stalin, Malenkov, Krushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Medvedev, and Putin."
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Бре́жнев (Bréžnev).