# USSR leaders

Source: https://projectgcse.co.uk/history/the_cold_war/ussr_leaders

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- Stalin - Dominated Eastern Europe from end of World War 2 .
- Khrushchev - Seemed better than Stalin but still sent tanks into Hungary and built The Berlin Wall.
- Brezhnev - Sent tanks into Czechoslovakia and was responsible for clamping down on Solidarity.
- Gorbachev - He was responsible for the breakdown of Russian control of Eastern Europe.