Stalin's reputation indeed experienced a partial rehabilitation during Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union. This period saw a reassertion of certain Stalinist principles and a cautious reevaluation of Stalin's role in Soviet history, contrasting with the more critical view presented during Khrushchev's de-Stalinization efforts.

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In the Early 1970s

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In the early 1970s,

A) Ho Chi Minh was elected mayor of Saigon and, two years later, of Hong Kong.
B) Yuri Andropov made major changes in Soviet industrial management by giving top positions in the oil and transport industries to executives from Japan and the West.
C) Richard Nixon praised Mao Zedong's "mass line" system as not only effective but "as American as apple pie."
D) Stalin's reputation rose somewhat under Brezhnev's rule.
E) Lyndon Johnson ended the Vietnam War.

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