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Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
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Leonid Brezhnev
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982
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Alexei Kosygin
Soviet politician (1904–1980)
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