What was Brezhnev capable of? Whether it is a great achievement, a good courage and a ruthless vassa

Brezhnev was very capable, but he did not have great achievements, brave and ruthless, and vassal elegance.

Brezhnev still had the ability, but he did not see the situation in the USSR clearly.

Brezhnev must be able to achieve this position, maybe it is too inflated in the later stage.

Brezhnev was a very strong man, and he wasn't so bad.

Brezhnev was still capable, but at that time he misjudged the situation.

He is indeed a capable man, but he is not a qualified politician.

Yes, he is actually very capable, but there are many shortcomings.

In 1955, he served as the first secretary of Kazakhstan and actively promoted Khrushchev's policy of land reclamation. In 1956, he was re-elected as an alternate member of the Presidium and secretary of the Bureau. After his expulsion from the Malenkov clique in 1957, he was promoted to a full member of the Presidium.

In 1960 he was appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. On October 14, 1964, he participated in the coup d'état that overthrew Khrushchev and served as the first secretary of the CPSU. After putting an end to Khrushchev's disorderly and liberalized reforms, Brezhnev's policy tended to be generally conservative and rigid, and corruption and nepotism prevailed during his leadership.

During his tenure, the Soviet Union's military power was greatly enhanced, and the number of nuclear weapons surpassed that of the United States, becoming a military superpower. Later in his reign, the Soviet economy had stagnated due to ultra-high military spending and a failed planned economy. Externally, he focused on diplomacy and pursued the "theory of limited sovereignty," claiming that the Soviet Union could intervene by force when the socialist regimes of the Warsaw Pact member states were threatened, which was known as the Brezhnev Doctrine.

He invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. In May 1976, he became Marshal of the Soviet Union. From 1977 to 1982, until his death, he was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

In 1979, he launched the war in Afghanistan as a result of the cancellation of pro-Soviet policies by the new Afghan **, which became one of the important factors leading to the decline and eventual disintegration of the Soviet Union. During his tenure, Sino-Soviet border conflicts broke out in Zhenbaodao and Tielekti in 1969, and relations between the Soviet Union and China did not improve for a long time. However, the "Tashkent Speech" of 1982, delivered by Brezhnev before his death, was regarded as an early signal of the Sino-Soviet thaw.