Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (russian: Пётр Ни́лович Де́мичев; 3 January 191810 August 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician. He was First Deputy Chairman of the

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from 1974 to 1986. He was a deputy Politburo member from 1964 until his retirement in 1988. He was considered to be a "

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ideologist" with little sympathy for liberal movements within the Soviet Union.

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