LEONID BREZHNEV
Leonid Brezhnev was the successor to Khrushchev and he ruled from October 1964 to November 1982. Khrushchev built up the Soviet Union's military industrial complex which caused the economy to get even worse.He made detentes with the United States, but that ended when he invaded Afghanistan. He also invaded many countries in the Warsaw Pact because of democratic influence.