Best Brezhnev Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”

Ifs Giving States United United States Bed Giving Up Unions Doctrine Soviet Soviet Union Perfume Brezhnev Monroe Doctrine

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.”

Self Running Unions Fallen Contempt Soviet Soviet Union Brezhnev

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.”

Country Huge Economics Foundation Our Country Plus Agriculture Minus Brezhnev

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.”

“The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.”

War Country Law Cold Doctrine Broke Soviet Cold War Brezhnev

Author:Jack Kemp

“It’s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after I’m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. I’ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you’re dead.”

People Thinking Knows May Long Enough Young Gone Generations One Day Determined Irrelevant Putin Researchers Think Of Me Hard Truths Phds Revisionism Brezhnev

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress the responsible citizen in me. I told myself that I was, after all, an artist.”

Trying Artist Citizens Responsible Gorbachev Brezhnev

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a new American president come in and say, "That is not good enough - let's do much more, and do it quite rapidly," took him by surprise.”

I Can Enough President Proud Surprise Agreement Good Enough Not Good Enough Retrospect American President Brezhnev

Author:Jimmy Carter

“One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was - when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, "God will never forgive us if we don't succeed." And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone.”

Ifs Knows Said Country Leader Succeed Forgiving Nuclear Gods Will Communist Surprising Nuclear Weapons Atheistic Never Forgive Weaponry Surprising Things Brezhnev

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.”

Thinking Bigs Revolution Tragedy Unions Dependent Soviet Regimes Soviet Union Cuban Reactionaries Cuban Revolution Brezhnev

Author:Tariq Ali

“[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.”

Thinking Home Funny Leader Humorous Russia Soviet Telephones Moscow Brezhnev

Author:Ross Perot

“The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.”

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Author:Frederick Forsyth

“I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.”

Ifs Knows Wisdom Leader Glad Censorship Tape Kremlin Brezhnev

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.”

War Religious Cold Office Prison Unions Posts Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Circus Revival Post Office Brezhnev

Book:Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

“The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev”

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Author:Dmitri Volkogonov

“I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.”

World Brezhnev

Author:Dan Rather

“Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.”

Funny Changed Humorous Russia Instance Twilight Moscow Better Now Brezhnev

Book:Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

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