Frol Kozlov
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Frol Romanovich Kozlov was a Soviet politician and a member Secretariat from 1960 to 1964. He was a Hero of the Socialist Labour.
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Pres
Frol Kozlov
…elected as the Party's Senior Secretary of Cadres. Later, he became the de facto Second Secretary of the CPSU from 1960–1963 until being replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. While initially considered Khrushchev's likely successor, Kozlov's position in the Soviet leadership was significantly undermined by the effects of…
Official portrait, 1972
Brezhnev (right) speaks with Nikita Khrushchev, 23 April 1943
Brezhnev in 1950
Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Brezhnev's main patron