Leonid Brezhnev: The World Revolutionary Movement
After the Second World War, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev served his country and people with edifying devotion first as second Secretary and later First Secretary of the Party in Kazakhstan. It was in 1960 that he was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet and four years later in 1964, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). His courage, determination and firm devotion to all assignments was so phenomenal, as he emphasised a policy of consolidating the alliance of the Soviet Union and peoples fighting for national liberation and social emancipation.
Accordingly, Brezhnev became an advocate, a champion of the World Revolutionary Movement. In his speech celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Brezhnev maintained that: “Soviet People are constant in their support of the Asian and African peoples’ freedom struggle against imperialism, and colonial and racial oppression … we constantly support the struggles of the peoples of Africa to eliminate the colonial and racialist regimes.”
Brezhnev's governance improved the Soviet Union's international standing while stabilising the position of its ruling party at home. While pushing for détente between the United States, he greatly increased the Soviet nuclear arsenal and strengthened Moscow's dominion over Central and Eastern Europe. Under Khrushchev, the Soviet Union initially supported North Vietnam out of "fr
