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In 1969 Viktor Ilyin tried to assassinate Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev by shooting at his motorcade that was entering the Kremlin. The car that he shot at however did not contain Brezhnev, but rather 4 cosmonauts. Brezhnev had entered the Kremlin through a different gate.
What would have happened if Brezhnev was in the car that was fired upon and had been killed? How would the Soviet Union be affected and what would be its future?