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This is part 4 in a series of four with glimpses from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. These glimpses are extracts from a film in the Prelinger Archives about Leonid Brezhnev (1906-82), who was the leader of the Soviet Union 1964-82.
Extracts by Eva Vikström, August 2007.
The making of a Soviet hero, Jurij Gagarin and his spaceflight in 1961.