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Brezhnev assassination attempt
An
assassination attempt
was made upon
Leonid Brezhnev
on 22 January 1969, when a deserter from the
Soviet Army
,
Viktor Ilyin
, fired shots at a
motorcade
carrying the
Soviet leader
through
Moscow
. Though Brezhnev was unhurt, the shots killed a driver and lightly injured several celebrated
cosmonauts
of the
Soviet space program
who were present in the motorcade. Brezhnev's attacker was captured and a
news blackout
on the event was maintained by the
Soviet government
for years thereafter.
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