Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Brezhnev gets a D in Haz's tier-list — revisionist, but above Khrushchev's F.
The grade
MAJOR UPDATES stream: "Khrushchev is F. Brezhnev is D."
The operative position
From the 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 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).