Statistics for The Dictator Files: Leonid Brezhnev

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Present-day country he was born in	Ukraine	92%
Country the Soviet Union invaded in 1979, in a spectacular failure	Afghanistan	91%
Soviet Leader Brezhnev ousted and replaced	Nikita Khrushchev	86%
Dictator whose Cultural Revolution Brezhnev called "self-destructive"	Mao Zedong	73%
KGB Leader who succeeded Brezhnev	Yuri Andropov	59%
Communist Country he shipped $450 million worth of arms to	North Vietnam	58%
Revolt in Czechoslovakia he brutally crushed	Prague Spring	57%
Soviet Republic whose Communist Party his predecessor made him second secretary of	Kazakhstan	50%
He wished to thaw relations with the US using a policy called:	Détente	44%
Position in the Soviet Union's Communist Party held by Brezhnev	General Secretary	44%
Highest military rank in the Soviet Union, with Brezhnev and Stalin being the only Soviet leaders to hold it	Marshal	29%
Polish dictator whose rival Solidarity Union Brezhnev helped suppress	Wojciech Jaruzelski	14%
Military rank held at the end of World War II	Major General	13%
Wife	Viktoria Denisova	12%
Politician who Brezhnev was briefly in a power struggle with in the 1960s	Alexei Kosygin	9%
Type of engineering study he took up in University	Metallurgy	6%