# Talk:Leonid Brezhnev

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed lots of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs (like the first paragraph in "Agricultural policy".) Would it be helpful to add citation needed tags? Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 15:48, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

I added a good source. Rjensen (talk) 10:25, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
@Rjensen: Thanks for doing that. There are still a lot of uncited statements in the article. Are you interested in working on this, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 19:06, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
I will pass on that. Rjensen (talk) 23:55, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
I will try to provide references for the unsourced statements. Kelob2678 (talk) 11:02, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
*@Rjensen and Kelob2678: Following up on this: I see that there is an orange "expansion needed" banner under "Intervention in Afghanistan". Is this valid? The article is also approaching WP:TOOBIG limits: is there anything that can be summarised more effectively or removed as too much detail? Z1720 (talk) 17:54, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
Brezhnev was practically incoherent at that point and was not a major decision maker re Afghanistan so there is not much to say here. Rjensen (talk) 12:00, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
I expanded the section, pinging Emiya1980 who added the tag. Kelob2678 (talk) 13:38, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

@Emiya1980: You are ignoring WP:BRD again by edit warring to insert your controversial edits without gaining consensus beforehand.[1] Can you mention which sources support your claims? If anything, the sources are more inclined to say that suppression and censorship was not so prevalent during the days of Brezhnev in comparison with earlier regimes like that of Stalin. Capitals00 (talk) 01:25, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

There was an increase in repression and censorship under Brezhnev compared to Khrushchev's rule. That is all that is intended to be conveyed by my edits.Emiya1980 (talk) 01:32, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
@Capitals00: I have revised the sentence to address your concerns.Emiya1980 (talk) 01:37, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

This is missing: Why was he removed as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on July 15 1964? Ds77 (talk) 18:29, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

The removal of Khrushchev was a collective act, and the conspirators didn't want any one of them to obtain a disproportionate amount of power as a result. Later, Brezhnev outmaneuvered his opponents and combined both positions. This is described in Leonid Brezhnev#Consolidation of power. Kelob2678 (talk) 18:57, 8 November 2025 (UTC)