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Colin sez, 40-year-old Mikhail Puchkov decided to design and build a personal submarine during the stifling era of Leonid Brezhnev's regime when he was barely twenty years old.
Boing Boing 2009
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One can even imagine, as we once did with regard to the fascist generals' Argentina or Brezhnev's USSR, boycotting those Arab regimes whose citizens' freedom of expression is forbidden and punished, if necessary, in blood.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Why the Call to "Boycott Israel" Is Crap Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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A computer-generated picture of an aged Putin wearing Mr. Brezhnev's trademark medal-encrusted uniform has become a hit on the Internet.
Putin Aide Cites Brezhnev as 'Plus' for Russia Gregory L. White 2011
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Just hours after the announcement, a cartoon starting recirculating on Facebook showing what looks like a weary 75-year-old Putin, wearing Leonid Brezhnev's favorite outfit: a military uniform with lots and lots of medals.
Beth Knobel: Putin's Running. What a Surprise... Not! Beth Knobel 2011
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One can even imagine, as we once did with regard to the fascist generals' Argentina or Brezhnev's USSR, boycotting those Arab regimes whose citizens' freedom of expression is forbidden and punished, if necessary, in blood.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Why the Call to "Boycott Israel" Is Crap Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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One can even imagine, as we once did with regard to the fascist generals' Argentina or Brezhnev's USSR, boycotting those Arab regimes whose citizens' freedom of expression is forbidden and punished, if necessary, in blood.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Why the Call to "Boycott Israel" Is Crap Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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While many in Russia and the West see Mr. Brezhnev's reign as one of stagnant totalitarianism, for Mr. Putin's spokesman the analogy isn't a bad thing at all.
Putin Aide Cites Brezhnev as 'Plus' for Russia Gregory L. White 2011
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A computer-generated picture of an aged Putin wearing Mr. Brezhnev's trademark medal-encrusted uniform.
Putin Aide Cites Brezhnev as 'Plus' for Russia Gregory L. White 2011
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Just hours after the announcement, a cartoon starting recirculating on Facebook showing what looks like a weary 75-year-old Putin, wearing Leonid Brezhnev's favorite outfit: a military uniform with lots and lots of medals.
Beth Knobel: Putin's Running. What a Surprise... Not! Beth Knobel 2011
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And if regime factionalism were evidence of an impending fall, the Soviet Union should not have survived long past Khrushchev's feud with Beria, or Brezhnev's with Khrushchev.
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