Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Shekaru da yawa, an dauke shi a matsayin wanda zai iya maye gurbin Khrushchev amma tun kafin a cire mai ba shi shawara daga ofis, matsayin Kozlov ya raunana sakamakon tasirin maye gurbinsa; a cikin bazara na 1963 Leonid Brezhnev ya maye gurbinsa a matsayin Sakataren Kwamitin Tsakiya na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis. A lokacin da aka cire shi, Kozlov ya riga ya sha wahala daga bugun jini, kuma ya mutu ba da daɗewa ba bayan an cire shi daga ofis. A shekarar 1992, an dauke shi da alhakin wani bangare na Yuni 1962
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