New Year's address of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev to the Soviet people 1970
The very first congratulations on the New Year from TV screens. Brezhnev 1970.
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev came to power. And in 1970, in the year of the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a revolution broke out in the USSR in the field of New Year's greetings.

First, a televised address was shown for the first time.

Secondly, it came not on behalf of the "group of comrades", but directly from the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. True, Leonid Ilyich did not succeed in catching the genre right away - his appeal was more like an annual report. In addition, Comrade Brezhnev appeared on the screens not before the chimes, but a few hours before that.

The first New Year's greetings from the state to the people, or rather, to its part - to the polar explorers - can be considered the congratulation made in 1935 by the chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Mikhail Kalinin. But this was not a televised address, it was made on the radio.



The tradition of television appeals to the people was started by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev before the onset of 1971. In his first televised congratulation, he addressed the Russians as follows: "Dear compatriots! Dear comrades and friends!" Later, the appeal of the heads of state to the people changed several times.



Brezhnev noted that the Soviet people saw off 1970 with a sense of accomplished duty and in a good mood. He also told what this good mood should be connected with: "Hundreds of enterprises have been put into operation, new highways have been laid, new cities have risen."



It must be said that Brezhnev made his first New Year's address at the Ostankino television center.

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