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Leonid Brezhnev, who headed the Soviet Union for 18 years, is remembered not only as a politician but also as a target for jokes. Even though Soviet citizens could get in trouble with the authorities for telling political jokes, during the Era of Stagnation, as the Brezhnev period was known, many people made fun of the all-seeing Communist Party and its leader. Photo: Leonid Brezhnev in his study in the Kremlin, Moscow. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS. Leonid Brezhnev, who headed the Soviet Union for 18 years, is remembered not only as a politician but also as a target for jokes

The Party Album (stylized as The Party Album!) is the second studio album by Dutch dance group Vengaboys. It was first released internationally under the name The Party Album! in 1999 and was later re-released under the title Greatest Hits Part 1 with alternate versions of some songs and other songs being replaced entirely. Two singles were released from The Party Album: "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" and "We're Going to Ibiza"

highest posts in the party and in the government. The post of the General Secretary was abolished in 1952 under Stalin and later re-established by Nikita Khrushchev under the name of First Secretary. In 1966, Leonid Brezhnev reverted the office title to its former name. This vote weakened the party and its hegemony over the Soviet Union and its people. Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent President, the Vice President of the Soviet Union would assume the office, though the Soviet Union dissolved before this was actually tested. After the failed August 1991 coup, the Vice President was replaced by an elected.

Start the Party is the fourth and final studio album by Welsh post-hardcore band The Blackout. It was released in January 2013 under Cooking Vinyl Records. Matthew Pritchard of Dirty Sanchez fame appears on the album cover. In August, the group performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, before headlining the Merthyr Rock festival. On 17 September, Start the Party was announced for release in January

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Brezhnev" redirects here. For other uses, see Brezhnev (disambiguation). This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Ilyich and the family name is Brezhnev. Leonid Brezhnev Леонид Брежнев. Brezhnev in East Berlin in 1967. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In office 14 October 1964 – 10 November 1982.

When Brezhnev was drafted into the army, he was sent to a tank school and later took a position as a political commissar of a tank company. After brief stints at a metallurgical technical college and a regional center in Dnepropetrovsk, he became the party secretary in charge of the vital defense industries. In 1952, he was inducted into the Central Committee of the Communist Party and eventually into the Presidium, predecessor of the Politburo. A short time after Stalin’s death in March 1953, Khrushchev rose to power and appointed Brezhnev to senior-level positions, including head of the Political Directorate of the Army and Navy, and Party First Secretary of Kazakhstan.