The Day Comrade Brezhnev Kicked the Bucket

[@UshankaShow]

My video about Brezhnev: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hILdYqWphb6MY8U Biggest corruption case during Brezhnev's rule: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHupcqmMrdKbatk Brezhnev Vs Carter: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHrEeKB_fZmnmsU

[@wape1]

Brezhnev would have *loved* to meet Göring! They'd have spent hours and hours just making up medals and bestowing them on each other.

[@JG-xk7ve]

And eating

[@billsummy2412]

Voted the BEST eyebrows in the USSR !

[@MrShobar]

Nixon gave Brezhnev lavish gifts. Nixon gave Leonid a few new American cars including a Lincoln Continental.

[@paulalexandredumasseauvan2357]

your story about taking a look at chernenko is HILARIOUS! 🤣👍

[@UshankaShow]

😏 Kids can be so cruel. Waiting for a poor old guy to croak so I can have another day off

[@timmmahhhh]

Your memory of Brezhnev reminds me of my father's memory of FDR. My dad was born in 1933 and FDR was President from his ages 7 to 19. No day off from school though as he was an army soldier in the Philippines.

[@brittsaunders4621]

It's my understanding that Dear Leonid Ilyich was actually dead for a few years before the announcement in 1982. There was a joke in the Soviet Union regarding his geriatric appearance and the slow cadence of his long, mush-mouthed (due to jaw cancer) speeches that he was resuscitated each morning for his daily routines. 🤣🤣🤣 It speaks volumes about the stagnation and rot of the Party at the time that following Brezhnev's death, two more General Secretaries were chosen who didn't last more than a year and a half (Andropov was around for that amount of time, while Chernyenko lasted about 300 days).

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Comrade Eyebrows sure loved his medals.

[@bigchills7194]

I remember this very well and his successors like Andropov didn't stick around all that long either. Oh and I hate to break it to you Sergi that he died 42 years ago. I was born in 1971 USA and I WISH it was only 22 years ago 😂😂😂

[@Asptuber]

Indeed. I heard this and went "wait, am I much younger than I thought?!"

[@kamrankhalid2153]

R/woosh. Genius 🙄🙄🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@richardkammerer2814]

I remember the photo of Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Gerald Ford side by side, wearing those expensive ushankas.

[@youtubesketches110]

Me too!

[@angelogarcia2189]

Those old news clippings are really cool.

[@UshankaShow]

Thanks! Sometimes it pays to be a nerd

[@waverider227]

I remember when Brezhnev died I was 7 and had a day off also but only because i was sick with a cold and woke up early still in bed seeing moms little black and white tv with the CBS morning news showing the funeral .

[@davidmajer3652]

He liked kissing guys too. That Soviet newspaper was pretty good, because it does not seem to have yellowed much.

[@PassivePortfolios]

Kissing women in public in the USSR was considered to be a bourgeois, capitalist no-no.

[@nickadams2451]

The day Soviet Grandpa finally took a dirt nap. 😂

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

he is now in the big kremlin in the sky.

[@FlintIronstag23]

At 2:31, that article is from 1986 talking about the 80th anniversary of Brezhnev's birth but he was not still alive since he died in 1982 at age 75.

[@Clipgatherer]

+FlintIronstag23. Brezhnev and his two immediate successors were all born before the Revolution. Gorbachev was born after it (in 1931). And he was the last Soviet leader.

[@JBM425]

I have to hand it to the CPSU: they really knew how to throw a good state funeral.

[@northernbohemianrealist]

Khrushchev gave the world men in space and Soviet pride. Brezhnev gave the world the Afghan war. After destroying the Soviet economy. What a guy.

[@UshankaShow]

Nikita gave the Soviets corn and it didn't go very well.

[@JBM425]

@@UshankaShowAnd, Nikita made the Chief Designer (Sergei Korolyov) constantly play “Can You Top This?” Every time they came up with a major space achievement, Khrushchev demanded something even more spectacular for the next flight rather than steady development that built on the previous mission.

[@silencesays228]

Perfect video. I was trying to remember who came after Brezhnev.

[@UshankaShow]

Andropov but he dropped off pretty quick

[@nmmm2000]

I am from Bulgaria. When he died, in our school, they put Brezhnev portrait In the entrance and they brought all classes, including mine to pay respect. 😅😅😅 Nobody was serious, including most of the teachers. However one of the teachers expected us to cry. Then another teacher said - Why do they do this circus? He is an important leader, but he is not a Bulgarian leader, so why did we have to do all this respect?!?! I know you will ask if there were consequences for this teacher - no there were none.

[@UshankaShow]

Thanks! Its always interesting to learn about those events from our братские страны

[@breslins]

Thanks!

[@UshankaShow]

My pleasure!

[@gregyoungman]

Very cool video thank you for sharing

[@Stevierschannel]

I remember hearing the news first thing in the morning.

[@Leitis_Fella]

Comrade Floaty Brezhnev

[@jackmason4320]

He died in 82, not 92.

[@UncleHo5]

42 years ago, not 22. 2024-1982=42

[@UshankaShow]

Good job! You succesfully passed my "are you paying attention" test 😄

[@andrefiset3569]

I only had one snow day. I was 6 and needed to walk to the school and was nearly the only kid who made it because all the school buses were stuck. It is known as the Century snow storm of 1971.

[@jordanjohnanderson]

The most powerful Ukrainian in history,lol. The "Soviet films, plays and TV shows" channel uploaded the Vremya broadcast coverage of his death today. There's a US news clip of an interview with Nixon talking about him. He said Brezhev's doctors gave him a cigarette case with an alarm on it so he wouldn't smoke too much. But if the alarm went off, he just pulled out a regular pack of cigarettes and smoked one of them. 1982 was the begining of the end of the regular cast, with Suslov having died earlier that year. Then Ustinov in '84. Perhaps if Ligachev had beat Gorbachev, the USSR would have remained until his death in 2021. They're all gone now though. With Ryzhkov's death earlier this year, all the Poliburo is gone.

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

Calling it now: OD'd on kisses.

[@OscarOSullivan]

Gorbachev only died on the 30th of August 2022. Brezhnev’s death hit the Communist party of the USSR like how Barry John’s death hit the rugby union community last February.

[@-jdb_89_mgr_pt-]

Brezhnev was a good man, enjoyed life and good things... Overall a stabel leader who loved his nation and was not a bloodthirsty tiran like Stalin or Lenin... And he didnt pass 22 yaers ago...0:10... more like 42 years. Thank you for your content...

[@mstcrow5429]

I think bad people can enjoy life and good things too. Being politically powerful can help with that.

[@-jdb_89_mgr_pt-]

@@mstcrow5429 Yes but absolute power can also help being a tiran, like his ancestors, and he was far from being a tiran...

[@xandervk2371]

@@-jdb_89_mgr_pt- Not counting political prisoners and introducing psychiatric "treatment" of political opposition, on the grounds that a healthy person could not be opposed to the communist rule. He also allowed the country to rot away from corruption to the point of no return.

[@xandervk2371]

@@-jdb_89_mgr_pt- Invaded Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, kept political prisoners in camps, introduced psychiatric treatment for opposition figures on the grounds that a healthy person would not oppose the communist rule.

[@mitchyoung93]

Вечная память Вічна пам'ять

[@xandervk2371]

How about no?

[@mstcrow5429]

I don't think those dates are right.

[@sputnikone6281]

The Day Comrade Brezhnev Kicked the Bucket, Soros, Obama, Sanders, Blair & Starmer cried their eyes out!

[@UshankaShow]

I bet they did, LOL

[@Flynnmiv]

Continuation

[@Stevierschannel]

'The name of Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, a true continuer of the Great Leninist Cause, an ardent fighter for peace and communism, will always live in the hearts of the Soviet people and all progressive mankind.'

[@williammckinney4090]

Weird question, but did any of your teachers actually explain how the new General Secretary would be chosen?

[@UshankaShow]

I don't recall any explanation.

[@Cyberleader135]

22 years?

[@UshankaShow]

42, congrats you passed my "paying attention" test 😄

[@cliftonwalker1994]

Math is hard isn’t it Sergei? I think you mean 32 years ago.

[@UshankaShow]

Or even 42 years ago? 2024 - 1982?

[@dlxmarks]

Always fun when someone makes a mistake when trying to correct someone else's mistake.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

​@@dlxmarks that's the joke

[@dlxmarks]

@@tripsaplenty1227 If that was a joke, I'm totally cool with not getting it.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

@@dlxmarks cool

[@Ronilac]

It is not hard to translate, just you should work a bit more on your English

[@UshankaShow]

I guess I should, LOL. Should become an ardent learner of English 😄