General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
de facto head of state of the Soviet Union and dirigent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
6 dated entries naming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, drawn from 6 separate years between 1982 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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20th century
- 1982November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, 75, Soviet politician, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and was a part of the country's collective leadership, he also served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1960 until 1964, and again from 1977 until 1982, under the title of the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, heart attacksource
- 1985March 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.source
- 1987June 12 – During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.source
- 1990January 20 – Cold War: Black January – Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, under the state of emergency decree issued by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, and kill over 130 protesters who were demonstrating for independence. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic declares its independence from the USSR.source
- 1991April 16–18 – General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev begins the first ever visit of a Soviet leader to Japan, but fails to resolve the two countries' dispute over ownership of the Kuril Islands.source
21st century
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- Mikhail Gorbachev (5)
- Soviet Union (3)
- Ronald Reagan (1)
- Berlin Wall (1)
- Baku (1)
- Nobel Peace Prize (1)
- Leonid Brezhnev (1)