Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I tiimata a Brezhnev i tana mahi hei Hekeretari Matua me te whakawakanga o Sinyavsky <unk> Daniel i te tau 1965, i whakaatuhia ai te whakaturanga o te kaupapa rangatira. Whai muri i tērā, ka whakaaetia e Brezhnev te whakaekenga o Czechoslovakia
i te tau 1968 ka mutu me te Pakanga Soviet-Afghan i haere tonu i muri i tona matenga; i whakauruhia e ia he kawanatanga mana whakahaere i roa i roto i tona oranga me nga oranga o ona kaiwhaiwhai e rua, Yuri Andropov me Konstantin Chernenko.