<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" id="mw8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a> becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" id="mw8Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexei Kosygin">Alexei Kosygin</a> becomes the head of government.