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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“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let’s all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
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