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Not only did this mark the first trip by a Russian leader to Israel, but no Russian leader had visited the Middle East since 1970, when Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev attended the funeral of Egyptian President Gamal Abd al-Nasser. Two years earlier Israel had defeated Egypt and Syria (both Soviet client states) in the Six-Day War; for much of 1969, there had been military skirmishes along the long Soviet-Chinese border; and at home the government of Premier Leonid Brezhnev had been cracking down on intellectuals protesting the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Says Genrikh Grofimenko, a former adviser to Leonid Brezhnev, "Ninety-nine percent of the Russian people believe that you won the Cold War because of your president's insistence on SDI," the Strategic Defense Initiative, as Star Wars was formally called. |
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