Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev - Revision history

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	'''Brezhnev''' ~~gets a~~ D in Haz's ~~tier-list —~~ revisionist, but above Khrushchev's F.		'''Brezhnev''' — D-tier in Haz's ranking: revisionist, but above Khrushchev's F.

	== The grade ==		== The grade ==

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	"'''"Brezhnev''' gets a D-tier ~~from Haz Al~~-~~Din~~'s ~~Soviet leaders ranking (~~[https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/7c7451fb-bb3b-4e4d-9903-ef1f9ee3883d/ MAJOR UPDATES stream]: "Khrushchev is F. Brezhnev is D"~~) — revisionist but above Khrushchev.~~		'''Brezhnev''' gets a D in Haz's tier-list — revisionist, but above Khrushchev's F.

			== The grade ==
			[https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/7c7451fb-bb3b-4e4d-9903-ef1f9ee3883d/ MAJOR UPDATES stream]: "Khrushchev is F. Brezhnev is D."

	== The operative position ==		== The operative position ==
	From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/01b75999-cac8-4153-b7fe-53ddacd54b59/ FBI AFTER ME! \| IRAN CEASEFIRE stream], asked ~~whether he's a hardline supporter~~ or critical supporter of the USSR:		From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/01b75999-cac8-4153-b7fe-53ddacd54b59/ FBI AFTER ME! \| IRAN CEASEFIRE stream], asked hardliner or critical supporter of the USSR:

	> "Critical of everything but to an extent uncritical — unconditional. If Brezhnev was around and things popped off between Brezhnev and the imperialist bloc: I understand he's a revisionist. I understand de-Stalinization was totally unjustified. But if that conflict happened... tie me to a missile and send me to NATO."		> "Critical of everything but to an extent uncritical — unconditional. If Brezhnev was around and things popped off between Brezhnev and the imperialist bloc: I understand he's a revisionist. I understand de-Stalinization was totally unjustified. But if that conflict happened... tie me to a missile and send me to NATO."

	~~This is the formula:~~ '''~~critical~~ support, unconditional in conflict''' — internal critique of revisionism never becomes external aid to imperialism. ~~The~~ line separates ~~Infrared~~ from both ~~campist uncriticality~~ and left-anticommunism.		'''Critical support, unconditional in conflict''' — internal critique of revisionism never becomes external aid to imperialism. That line separates this movement from both campism and left-anticommunism ([[Kruschev, Secret Speech]], [[Yezhovshchina]]).

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[~~Kruschev, Secret Speech]]~~		* [[Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]]
	* [[Yezhovshchina]]

	== References ==		== References ==

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	'''~~Leonid Ilyich~~ Brezhnev''' (~~1906–1982), General Secretary of the CPSU (1964–1982), presided over the era of~~ "~~stability of cadres~~" — ~~the long plateau between~~ Khrushchev~~'s chaos and collapse~~.		"'''"Brezhnev''' gets a D-tier from Haz Al-Din's Soviet leaders ranking ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/7c7451fb-bb3b-4e4d-9903-ef1f9ee3883d/ MAJOR UPDATES stream]: "Khrushchev is F. Brezhnev is D") — revisionist but above Khrushchev.

	== ~~Record~~ ==		== The operative position ==
	* Reversed Khrushchev's ~~wildest schemes (sovnarkhoz fragmentation, corn mania); Kosygin reforms (1965) briefly experimented with profit indicators before being shelved after Prague 1968.~~		From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/01b75999-cac8-4153-b7fe-53ddacd54b59/ FBI AFTER ME! \| IRAN CEASEFIRE stream], asked whether he's a hardline supporter or critical supporter of the USSR:
	* Oil-boom economics: high energy prices financed grain imports and consumer goods while productivity stagnated — the "era of ~~stagnation" (''zastoi'') in retrospect.~~
	* Military parity achieved with the ~~US; détente and Helsinki (1975); Afghanistan intervention (1979) as overextension began.~~
	* Gerontocracy: ~~the average Politburo age climbed past 70; corruption networks (the "era of lavish feasts") metastasized in Central Asia and the Caucasus.~~

	~~== Assessment ==~~		> "Critical of everything but to an extent uncritical — unconditional. If Brezhnev was around and things popped off between Brezhnev and the imperialist bloc: I understand he's a revisionist. I understand de-Stalinization was totally unjustified. But if that conflict happened... tie me to a missile and send me to NATO."
	~~Brezhnevism~~ is '''~~consolidation without renewal~~'''~~: the revolution's gains were defended administratively while its ideological life died~~. Infrared reads it as the necessary caution against confusing stability with health — a socialism that stops mobilizing the masses for class struggle is already losing it (see [[Husákism]], [[Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov]]).
			This is the formula: '''critical support, unconditional in conflict''' — internal critique of revisionism never becomes external aid to imperialism. The line separates Infrared from both campist uncriticality and left-anticommunism.

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[~~Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko~~]]		* [[Kruschev, Secret Speech]]
	* [[~~Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov~~]]		* [[Yezhovshchina]]

	== References ==		== References ==

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'''Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev''' (1906–1982), General Secretary of the CPSU (1964–1982), presided over the era of "stability of cadres" — the long plateau between Khrushchev's chaos and collapse.

== Record ==
* Reversed Khrushchev's wildest schemes (sovnarkhoz fragmentation, corn mania); Kosygin reforms (1965) briefly experimented with profit indicators before being shelved after Prague 1968.
* Oil-boom economics: high energy prices financed grain imports and consumer goods while productivity stagnated — the "era of stagnation" (''zastoi'') in retrospect.
* Military parity achieved with the US; détente and Helsinki (1975); Afghanistan intervention (1979) as overextension began.
* Gerontocracy: the average Politburo age climbed past 70; corruption networks (the "era of lavish feasts") metastasized in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

== Assessment ==
Brezhnevism is '''consolidation without renewal''': the revolution's gains were defended administratively while its ideological life died. Infrared reads it as the necessary caution against confusing stability with health — a socialism that stops mobilizing the masses for class struggle is already losing it (see [[Husákism]], [[Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov]]).

== See also ==
* [[Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko]]
* [[Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov]]

== References ==
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