Soviet Union
Title: Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (NLKP Keskkomitee peasekretär) (1940 - 1991)
- Joseph Stalin (1940 - 1953)
- Lavrenty Beria (1953)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1953 - 1964)
- Leonid Brezhnev (1964 - 1982)
- Yuri Andropov (1982 - 1984)
- Konstantin Chernenko (1984 - 1985)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1985 - 1991)
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Famous quotes by soviet union:
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“In the Soviet Union everything happens slowly. Always remember that.”
—A.N. (Arkady N.)
“Today he plays jazz; tomorrow he betrays his country.”
—Stalinist slogan in the Soviet Union (1920s)
“Nothing an interested foreigner may have to say about the Soviet Union today can compare with the scorn and fury of those who inhabit the ruin of a dream.”
—Christopher Hope (b. 1944)