Leonid Brezhnev meets Willy Brandt
Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev poses with Willy Brandt during a meeting in Bonn on November 25, 1981. Less than a year later Brezhnev was dead. Both men knew each other well having jointly signed in 1973 a “common declaration” for a lasting peace. (UPI Photo/Files)
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