Viktor Ilyin
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Viktor Ilyin (Виктор Иванович Ильин, b. 1948) was a Second Lieutenant in the Soviet Army who tried to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on January 22, 1969. Armed with two Makarov PM semi-automatic pistols and disguised as a policeman, Ilyin was among the crowd outside the gates of the Borovitskaya tower of the Kremlin in Moscow, waiting for the motorcade which was to bring Brezhnev and a group of Soviet cosmonauts. Ilyin broke through the cordon and fired 16 shots, all aimed at the second Chaika limousine - which was apparently to have been the car in which Brezhnev was to travel. He killed one of the drivers and wounded a guard.
Ilyin was questioned after the assassination attempt by Yuri Andropov, who was at that time head of the KGB, and then spent the next 18 years in various mental institutions. He was released in 1988.
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