Leonid Brezhnev
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionWikipedia
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Oct 30, 2026
Dan BernsteinHOST
I then describe it's a Chicago saying where somebody from out of town has strong opinions about what's happening in Chicago, but is just ignorant about what's really going on in town.
Dan BernsteinHOST
After I finished the third glass, the 20-year-old Sonny, and after our host explains how Leonid Brezhnev himself named the 25-year-old Victoria, my intoxicated self gave my great insight on the future of Pridnestrovyi, that it should be treated in Moldova like Canada treats Quebec, and let Pridnestrov's Russian culture be.
Dan BernsteinHOST
Before I can drunkenly recommend that the European branch of Terry's basketball re-education camp be located in Tiraspol, that was my re-education camp, the host lets me know that Pridnestrov does not have Russian culture.
Dan BernsteinHOST
It has been on its own, functioning as a country long enough that their culture is uniquely Pridnestrovian.
Merlin MannHOST
tail.
Merlin MannHOST
You know? Like Brezhnev with a hood on.
Merlin MannHOST
I always thought it looked like Brezhnev.
Merlin MannHOST
The guy on the Alaska Airlines tail.
Merlin MannHOST
I didn't realize for a long time that that was an Eskimo man.
Merlin MannHOST
I thought it was Brezhnev.
Merlin MannHOST
You ever think it looks like Brezhnev?
Alex CoxHOST
I mean, a little, no.
A.D. TippettHOST
and he believed that negotiations could reduce these dangers without requiring the United States to abandon its strategic interests.
A.D. TippettHOST
In May of 1972, he visited Moscow and met Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
A.D. TippettHOST
The summit produced agreements on arms control and other areas of cooperation.
A.D. TippettHOST
The most important agreements, including the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement limiting certain strategic offensive weapons.
Tom LaipplyHOST
Blind obedience is democracy.
Tom LaipplyHOST
You know, whenever Brezhnev walked into the, you know, the Politburo, everyone has to stand and clap for an hour.
Tom LaipplyHOST
Just blind obedience, that's democracy to a Democrat.
Tom LaipplyHOST
All right, so anyway, that's what we have to have.
Ahmed Fouad AlkhatibGUEST
or to be governed by an amalgamation of, you know, the Palestinian Authority.
Ahmed Fouad AlkhatibGUEST
I mean, it's like late Soviet Brezhnev style governance or Baptist or Nazarist.
Ahmed Fouad AlkhatibGUEST
These are the two models that we have.
Ahmed Fouad AlkhatibGUEST
And like, I think we deserve 80 years later, a much more compelling version.
Steve GormanHOST
And that had a big part of why he was deposed a couple years later.
Steve GormanHOST
Brezhnev, his protege, led a coup and Khrushchev was out of work a couple years later.
Steve GormanHOST
The end of the missile crisis was a big part of it.
Steve GormanHOST
Unlike most Soviet premiers removed from office, they let him live the rest of his life.
Brian KilmeadeGUEST
So we should understand that this candidate over in Florida, where you guys are, Nixon, oh my goodness, didn't know if Cuba was a dictatorship? She goes, I've never been there.
Brian KilmeadeGUEST
You know, I'm pretty sure I've never met Leonid Brezhnev.
Brian KilmeadeGUEST
But that is the Soviet Union's communist, all right? I'm never going to Russia.
Brian KilmeadeGUEST
But it's an oppressive dictatorship run by an absolute monarch in every shape of the world.
RasheedHOST
President, the new first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, it was Aleksandr Dubšek, I don't know how to pronounce his last name, Aleksandr, he wanted to liberalize parts of Czechoslovakia, to have more economic decentralization, he abolished censorship, he wanted more non-communist parties in the government.
RasheedHOST
So Brezhnev of the USSR saw that and was like, no, we can't have that because that would lead to destabilization of the entire USSR and all things break loose in his view.
RasheedHOST
So they invaded Czechoslovakia.
RasheedHOST
and to kind of quash the reforms.
Jeff NyquistGUEST
Khrushchev wasn't Jewish.
Jeff NyquistGUEST
Brezhnev wasn't Jewish.
Jeff NyquistGUEST
These aren't Jews doing this.
Jeff NyquistGUEST
This is communism.
Tom LaipplyHOST
And I mean, you think about this.
Tom LaipplyHOST
We're saving Americans from a nuclear weapon that Iran may launch, but we never took out Leonid Brezhnev in the Cold War.
Tom LaipplyHOST
They had a weapon ready to go.
Tom LaipplyHOST
We never took him out.
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