Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
""Brezhnev gets a D-tier from Haz Al-Din's Soviet leaders ranking (MAJOR UPDATES stream: "Khrushchev is F. Brezhnev is D") — revisionist but above Khrushchev.
The operative position
From the FBI AFTER ME! | IRAN CEASEFIRE stream, asked whether he's a hardline supporter 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."
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.