Brezhnev was much keener to protect the priviledges of the Nomemclature than reforming the country. Khrushchev had reformed the Soviet Union because he wanted it to have a better image abroad. He was destituted by the Nomemclature who feared about their priviledges and blamed him for failing in Cuba in his foreign policy.
<span>The Italian peninsula is in the center, and generally smaller than the Scandinavian peninsula. A similarity would be that they are both in the northeastern region of Europe.
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