Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: Na amata e Brezhnev lana galuega o le Failautusi Aoao i le faamasinoga a Sinyavsky<unk>Daniel i le 1965, lea na faaalia ai le faavaeina o se talitonuga pule pule. Ina ua mavae lenā, na faamaonia ai e Brezhnev le
osofaʻiga a Czechoslovakia i le 1968 ma faaiʻu ai le Soviet-Afghan War lea na faaauau pea ina ua mavae lona maliu; na ia faʻatuina se pulega faʻamalosi na tumau i lona olaga atoa ma olaga o ona sui e toʻalua, Yuri Andropov ma Konstantin Chernenko.