LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

1980s news clips - Death of Leonid Brezhnev

Genre

Speech

TX Date

Nov 1982

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:00:36

Description

Statement by a male speaker (not identified) on Moscow State Radio announcing the death of Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev (10/11/82). From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Deaths; USSR; Heads of state; Obituaries; Leonid Brezhnev

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