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ITT: Jow Forums in 1982
Camden Perry
Austin Wright
>brezhnev
CRINGE
Khrushchev was their last hope
Lucas Ross
Brezhnev was hilarious
Gabriel Ortiz
Brezhnev was at the point where they figured that communism was an unattainable goal and instead let's just milk all the money from the system they could and ride the Titanic down to the bottom. So he made a perfectly compliant meat puppet that would allow the powers that be to rob the system unhindered.
Jace Adams
Not quite since the Soviet Union lunched off those high oil prices. The 80s oil crash was what helped put them into an unrecoverable tailspin.
Julian Gonzalez
Yeah but the 70s energy crisis pretty much focused everyone in the west to start focusing on energy efficiency meanwhile in East bloc everything was a gas guzzler. Then the 80s hit them hard in the face
Connor Anderson
he had eyebrows of steel
Lincoln Russell
Gerald Ford recalled in his memoirs this summit meeting where he gave Brezhnev his fur coat. He said it preceded an exchange where they told the Soviet delegation "We know you have Tu-22M long range bombers in Cuba that can fly all the way there from Russia without refueling." Brezhnev replied that that was nonsense and Ford told him "Well, this is what our intelligence tells us the Tu-22M is capable of." Brezhnev, surprised and dismayed, summoned his team into the next room and closed the door where they had a quick powwow. When they came back out, he said "I think we know what our own aircraft are capable of."
Liam Scott
I BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRICA
Jacob Wright
Khrushchev had joked that back in Ukraine in the '30s, Brezhnev had acquired the nickname "the ballerina" because "He always turns around and faces in whatever direction you spin him."