Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Brezhnev ya fara aikinsa a matsayin Babban Sakatare tare da shari'ar Sinyavsky <unk> Daniel a 1965, wanda ya nuna kafa wata akida ta mulkin mallaka. Bayan haka, Brezhnev ya amince da mamayewar Czechoslovakia
a 1968 kuma ya ƙare tare da Soviet-Afghan War wanda ya ci gaba bayan mutuwarsa; ya kafa mulkin mallaka wanda ya kasance a duk rayuwarsa da rayuwarsa biyu, Yuri Andropov da Konstantin Chernenko.