Meanings
nounBrezhnevite (plural Brezhnevites)
plural Brezhnevites
- A supporter of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906–1982), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982.
adjectiveBrezhnevite (comparative more Brezhnevite, superlative most Brezhnevite)
comparative more Brezhnevite · superlative most Brezhnevite
- Of or relating to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev or his policies.
When the promised state of affairs failed to materialize, the specifically communist claim of authority was rendered void, and it was clumsily and awkwardly replaced by Brezhnevite borborygms of the status quo.
2002, G[áspár] M[iklós] Tamás, “Victory Defeated”, in Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, editors, Democracy after Communism (A Journal of Democracy Book), Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 128
Origin
Translations
Finnish brežneviläinen
- brežneviläinensupporter of Brezhnev
Greek μπρεζνιεφικός
- μπρεζνιεφικός (brezniefikós)Of or relating to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev or his policies
Portuguese brejnevita
- brejnevitasupporter of Brezhnev
Ukrainian брежнєвист
- брежнєвист (brežnjevyst)supporter of Brezhnev
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