Who led the unofficial Triumvirate that governed the USSR in place of Khrushchev?
Nikolai Podgorny
Leonid Brezhnev
Alexei Kosygin
Nikita Khrushchev
Answer
Alexei Kosygin was a Soviet statesman who led the unofficial Triumvirate that governed the USSR in place of Nikita Khrushchev after the latter was deposed in 1964. Kosygin served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1964 to 1980 and was also a member of the Politburo from 1964 to 1980.
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