WI: Brezhnev assassinated on 1969

OTL, lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Ilyin deserted with two handguns, went Borovitsky Gate, in the Kremlin, and shot at a motorcad, killing its driver and lightly wounding a passenger, one of the four cosmonauts honoured this day. However, Brezhnev was unharmed.

So, TTL, Ilyin manage. to kill Brezhnev. Who would replace him? And what could happens next?
 
Probably succeeded by Alexei Kosygin. He was bit more reformist mind than Brezhnev. But his reign would last only about ten years. In OTL he died on 1980.

Hard to say then how he would handle Afghanistan.
 
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