Leonid Brezhnev told the November 1981 Central Committee plenum that work had begun on a new food programme .
Leonid Brezhnev is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet .
Leonid Brezhnev , the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet , told the November 1981 Central Committee plenum that work had begun on a new food programme .