Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 12 ga Afrilu 1967 an sanya shi Mataimakin Ministan Tsaro na farko na USSR (a lokaci guda tare da nadin Andrei Grechko a matsayin Ministan Tsaro) da Marshal na Tarayyar Soviet, yayin da daga watan Yulin wannan shekarar ya ci gaba da rike mukamin babban kwamandan sojojin kungiyar Warsaw Pact. A wannan matsayin, ya jagoranci shirye-shiryen soja don mamayewar Warsaw Pact na Czechoslovakia
a watan Agusta na shekara ta 1968.