Este é um nome russo, o nome de família é «Брежнев» e o patronímico «Ильич» .
Leonid Ilitch Brejnev, em russo ? Леони́д Ильи́ч Бре́жнев, transl. Leonid Ilitch Brejnev, pron. Lyeaníd Ilítch Bryéjnyév foi um estadista soviético que esteve à frente da liderança da União Soviética entre 1964 e 1982. Chefiou o Partido Comunista, tendo presidido o Soviete Supremo de 1977 até a sua morte. Teve sob seu comando o maior exército do mundo na época e um imenso arsenal nuclear, no período em que a URSS chegou ao seu ápice geopolítico. Pôs em prática a Doutrina da Soberania Limitada, que buscou impedir a expansão e influência do liberalismo pelo mundo, razão pela qual é considerada neostalinista, por seu cunho expansionista, agressivo e revolucionário.
As principais conquistas políticas de Brejnev durante a sua liderança foram a retomada das relações diplomáticas soviéticas com diversos países, as iniciativas de cooperação, junto das potências ocidentais, pela paz mundial e a tentativa da criação de um bem-estar social em seu país, que resultou na crise econômica que estremeceu a URSS. Ele também teve influente participação na expansão do socialismo a sua maior extensão, financiando revoluções armadas ao redor do globo.
Em termos políticos, a liderança de Brejnev perante a União Soviética representou o retorno do poder stalinista, tendo ele inclusive tentado uma má sucedida reabilitação do nome de Josef Stalin. Em termos culturais, deu fim às campanhas antirreligiosas iniciadas em 1958 e premiou o patriarca Pemeno I com a Ordem do Estandarte Vermelho, aumentando a liberdade religiosa na União Soviética, como forma de retomar e não degradar ainda mais a tradição cultural e religiosa da Rússia, em parte ameaçada pela política soviética.Em 1972, foi-lhe atribuído o Prêmio Lênin da Paz. Por suas contribuições na Grande Guerra Patriótica, recebeu a mais alta condecoração cívica que um cidadão soviético podia receber, Herói da União Soviética. Morre de forma suspeita em 1982, provavelmente de overdose, estimulada por sua enfermeira, associada à polícia secreta, chefiada por Iuri Andropov, o presumido sucessor de Brejnev. Menos de dez anos após a sua morte, durante o governo de Mikhail Gorbatchov, uma crise tomaria conta da URSS, levando o país ao caos e posteriormente à desintegração. Por esse motivo, os anos Brejnev são muitas vezes lembrados como anos dourados.
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“Não há nada mais prático do que uma boa teoria.”
There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
citado em "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" - por Alan Lindsay Mackay - Science - 1991
Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.
citado em "Brezhnev Reconsidered" - página 99 - por Edwin Bacon, Mark Sandle - History - 2002
Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country...the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.
citado em "For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War" - páagina 237 - por Melvyn P. Leffler - History - 2007
The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.
citado em "Sputnik: Digest" - página 48 - 1967
As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.
citado em "Reprints from the Soviet Press" - página 5 - Soviet Union - 1977
I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.
citado em "Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking" - página 68 - por Derek Leebaert, Timothy Dickinson - History - 1992
“O Povo soviético está materialmente e espiritualmente rico.”
Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.
citado em "Our Friends Speak: Greetings to the 25th CPSU Congress" - Page 268 - Communism - 1976
Modern science and technology have reached a level where there is the grave danger that a weapon even more terrible than nuclear weapons may be developed. The reason and conscience of mankind dictate the need to erect an insuperable barrier barrier to the development of such a weapon.
citado em "Nuclear Disarmament" - por Aleksandr Efremovich Efremov - Nuclear disarmament - 1979
“É loucura para qualquer país construir a sua política com um olho para uma guerra nuclear.”
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
citado em "Indefensible weapons: the political and psychological case against nuclearism" - página 224 - por Robert Jay Lifton, Richard A. Falk - History - 1982
The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.
citado em "Selected Speeches and Writings" - por Mikhail Andreevich Suslov - Political Science - 1980
We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.
citado em "Nuclear War: The Search for Solutions" - por Leonard V. Johnson, Helen Caldicott, Thomas L. Perry, Dianne DeMille - History - 1985
Of late, attempts have been made in the USA—at a high level and in a rather cynical form—to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.
citado em "Peace, Détente, and Soviet-American Relations: A Collection of Public Statements" - Page 222 - by Leonid Ilʹich Brezhnev - Political Science - 1979
We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.
citado em "Voices of Tomorrow: The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" - página 30 - por Jessica Smith - Political Science - 1971
We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.
citado em "V karǐni zdiǐsnenoǐ mriǐ" - página 54 - por IE IU Kastelli - 1979
“O problema com eleições livres, é que nunca sabe quem vai ganhar.”
The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.
citado em "Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them" - página 441 - por Nigel Rees - 2006
“Deus não nos perdoará se não conseguirmos.”
God will not forgive us if we fail.
citado em "Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections" - página 269 - por Adam Bruno Ulam, Paul Hollander - History - 2002
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
citado em "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" - página 289 - por Robert Andrews - 1993
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
citado em "Simpson's contemporary quotations: The Most Notable Quotes Since 1950" - por James Beasley Simpson
As quoted in Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking (1992) by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68
Reported as false in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 9-10. Falsely attributed to Brezhnev as having been said in a secret Warsaw Pact meeting in either 1968 or 1973.
Misattributed
Cited in Soviet Youth and Socialism http://leninist.biz/en/1974/SYAS228/3.1-Youth.and.Culture
As quoted in Peace, Détente, and Soviet-American Relations : A Collection of Public Statements (1979), p. 222
Cited in Soviet Youth and Socialism http://leninist.biz/en/1974/SYAS228/3.1-Youth.and.Culture
Cited in Fundamentals of Political Science http://leninist.biz/en/1975/FPS559/3.1-The.Dawn.of.a.New.Era-
Cited in Fundamentals of Political Science http://leninist.biz/en/1975/FPS559/3.1-The.Dawn.of.a.New.Era-
as quoted in Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State (1976) by Gary Allen
As quoted in Voices of Tomorrow : The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1971) by Jessica Smith, p. 30
Cited in Nations and Internationalism http://leninist.biz/en/1979/NI302/0-Introduction.005
Cited in Socialist Internationalism: Theory and Practice of International Relations of A New Type http://leninist.biz/en/1982/SI507/4.2-Nationalism.in.the.Socialist.Countries
As quoted in Nuclear War: The Search for Solutions (1985) by Leonard V. Johnson, Helen Caldicott, Thomas L. Perry and Dianne DeMille
Speech at the 5th Congress of the Polish United Workers Party (12 November 1968), quoted in The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy (2003) by Matthew J. Ouimet
Cited in Triumph of Lenin's Ideas http://leninist.biz/en/1978/TOLI198/01-Opening.Remarks
Cited in Ussr: For Peace Against Aggression http://leninist.biz/en/1976/UFPAA243/5.1-Against.Spread.of.Fascist.Aggression
Cited in Ussr and Countries of Africa http://leninist.biz/en/1980/UCOA319/01.5.1-Struggle.of.Former.Portuguese.Colonies
As quoted in Selected Speeches and Writings (1980) edited by Mikhail Andreevich Suslov
“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.”
This was quoted as an anonymous saying heard in Moscow around the time of the first Russian elections, in Voltaire, Goldberg & Others : A Compendium of the Witty, the Profound and the Absurd (2000), p. 201; it was later attributed to Brezhnev in Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them (2006) by Nigel Rees, p. 441, but without citations, and it is clearly derived from a statement widely attributed to Vyacheslav Molotov as early as the 1954 Berlin Conference, according to an eyewitness writing in International Affairs Vol. 36 (1960), p. 4 : "The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to to turn out."
Misattributed
As quoted in V karǐni zdiǐsnenoǐ mriǐ (1979) by IE IU Kastelli, p. 54
As quoted in Reprints from the Soviet Press (1977), p. 5
“Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.”
As quoted in Our Friends Speak : Greetings to the 25th CPSU Congress (1976), p. 268
Cited in the Future of Society http://leninist.biz/en/1973/FS375/5.3-Main.Historical.Stages.of.the.Communist.Formation
Statement made in World War II, as a commissar on the southern front, as quoted in Leonid I. Brezhnev : Pages from his Life (1978) by Academy of Sciences of the USSR, p. 49; also in For the Soul of Mankind : The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007) by Melvyn P. Leffler, p. 237
Cited in The WOrld Communist Movement http://leninist.biz/en/1973/WCM485/10.4-Kinship.Between.Right.and.Left-Wing.Opportunism
Cited in Soviet Socialist Democracy http://leninist.biz/en/1968/SSD255/4.6-The.Main.Duties.of.Soviet.Citizens
Cited in Behind the Scenes of Third Reich Diplomacy http://leninist.biz/en/1984/BSTRD194/8-Conclusion
“It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.”
As quoted in Indefensible Weapons : The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism (1992) by Robert Jay Lifton and Richard A. Falk, p. 224
Cited in the Future of Society http://leninist.biz/en/1973/FS375/5.3-Main.Historical.Stages.of.the.Communist.Formation
As quoted in Nuclear Disarmament (1979) by Aleksandr Efremovich Efremov
