Remembering History: Colonel Gaddafi and Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, holding hands in Moscow, April 27th, 1981. Courtesy of Michael Christopher Brown/Human Rights Watch

Colonel Gaddafi and Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, holding hands in Moscow, April 27th, 1981. Courtesy of Michael Christopher Brown/Human Rights Watch

Colonel Gaddafi and Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, holding hands in Moscow, April 27th, 1981. Courtesy of Michael Christopher Brown/Human Rights Watch