Entire Family Smeared, Says Brezhnev Kin
Leonid I. Brezhnev’s grandson complained in an article published today that criticism of the late Soviet leader had turned into a smear campaign of Brezhnev’s family.
Andrei Brezhnev said his family should not be blamed for the mistakes made by the late Soviet leader although he agrees with much of the criticism being leveled against his grandfather.
The full-page article in the weekly Moscow News was a rare public defense of the family of the man who ruled the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. Under Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the official press carries almost daily articles and letters criticizing Brezhnev for everything from the slump in the economy to his large collection of medals.
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