in september 1973, on the initiative of the general secretary of the cpsu central committee leonid ilyecharded the title of hero city. during the april battles for the small land, colonel brezhnev was the head of the political department of the eighteenth army. he visited several times at the bridgehead he always spoke with admiration about its defenders. how many times brezhiev visited, these data vary. there is information that more than ten times, there are more than twenty, but this does not have any role, even if he landed once on little ground, it would have already cost a lot, because on one of such transitions, when he was convoyed to the bridgehead , his sailboat, in which he was following, was blown up by a loss of energy, he was thrown out of the air, he was shell-shocked, that is, they barely picked him up there, they saw him, that is, he... with his life, the memory of the war for brezhnev himself, a participant in the historical victory parade of 1945, it was always sacred, it was under him that victory day became an official holiday and a day off in the ussr, and the tomb o