Brezhnev Assassination Attempt

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. An assassination attempt was made upon Leonid Brezhnev on January 22, 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.