Leonid Brezhnev 1964-1982 (1 gen 1964 anni – 3 gen 1982 anni)
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He ruled over an “era of stagnation" and decline of the Soviet economy
In that years, there was more production for consumers – away from the kind of heavy industrial production that had developed under Stalin.
From 1966 to 1970 under Leonid Brezhnev the Gross National Product (GNP) grew at a rate of around 5.3 percent per year. Then during 1971 to 1975 the growth declined to an average of 3.7 percent per year. And after 1975 the GNP fell to a growth of between 2.6 and 2.7.
There was a lack of innovation, technonolgie.
The agricultural sector of the Soviet economy was also functioning inefficiently.
During the Brezhnev years mining for oil and natural gas was becoming more expensive
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