This was the visit when Nixon and Brezhnev hoped in a car together and went out on a drive around Camp David causing the security detail of both to panic and chase after them not knowing if one had kidnapped the other. Turned out Brezhnev just wanted to drive an American car.
Brezhnev owned over 100 vehicles. He loved collecting American cars. Apparently he was a manic behind the wheel and almost killed them both! I believe the car was a Lincoln, and it was there because Nixon was giving it to Brezhnev.
Brezhnev dies "His drink was poisoned." Nixon: "The whole bottle was poisoned. I've spent the past few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder."
The "clinking" of glasses originated in the medieval days when wine was often spiked with poison as the sediment concealed it quite well. If a host wanted to prove that the wine wasn't poisoned, he would pour part of the guest's wine into his glass and drink it first. If the guest trusted his host he would just clink glasses when the host offered his glass for a sample. Hence the clinking of glasses has become a sign of trust, honesty and toast to good health.
@@houssamassila6274 but He knew that Nixon knew that he knew about the poison and would switch it. So he knew that Nixon would switch it, so he switched it AGAIN
At the height of the Cold war, the leaders of the US and Soviet Union could talk. There seemed to be mutual respect on both sides. Today, the the American president calls his Russian counterpart a killer and still expects a cordial relationship that is based on mutual interests. How times change.
@@jjampong The mid-1970s were honestly a time of detente, and the superpowers were aiming to ease the tentions in their relations. So it's not like Nixon was pretending to be nice, he seriously was trying to be nice and constructive. That doesn't mean that he liked commies. Of course he didn't like commies. Who would? But you can still behave civilized and try to be constructive.
Despite his inglorious end, Nixon working with the Russians to sign this treaty was one of the most important moments of the 20th Century. It helped calm the reckless and cavalier nuclear arms race.
Nixon doesn’t get a lot of the credit he deserves. He was a paranoid lunatic who used his power to try to cover up Watergate (corruption)….. but he did accomplish some pretty good things during his presidency and maintainers an amazingly high approval rating up until Watergate happened
@@QueenetBowie too bad he started and really made the war on drugs take off....locked up millions prolly over the years for shit not deserving of it. now weve wasted trillions on it up to this day. one of the worst things ever implemented in American history honestly besides segregation of course.
From "Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft,and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970- 1990 by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds" (on the Moscow Summit in 1972): "Nixon set his preferred tone at the first plenary, delivering lengthy statements on the status of US-Soviet relations, and noting that the two sides were ‘meeting here not because of sentiment, but because [the principals were] pragmatic men’. Brezhnev, by contrast, made far shorter contributions that were lighter on substance and interspersed with a few jokes in an attempt to break the ice... At their concluding one-on-one, the general secretary’s opening gambit was to tell Nixon a Russian ‘anecdote about the sex life of older men’. The prudish Nixon responded by noting how much he appreciated getting to know the general secretary but then immediately switched topics to the final communiqué."
Did you know that the custom of toasting itself also has to do with poison? During medieval times in Europe, poisoning was the main method that nobles used to get rid of a rival, and it was usually done during a feast. Frantically (much more so back then) clinking glasses while looking in each other's eyes was a polite way of ensuring each party that no poisoning shenanigans were going on, insofar as droplets of poison could spill from one glass into another, and the eyes of a potential perpetrator would give away his fear of accidentally poisoning himself while toasting
This is the biggest shite talk I've ever heard. First off you wouldn't even have glasses you would have clay cups and no droplets would have a chance of going into one drink to another. The clinking is just to be friendly, its why peasants and nobles alike did it
I grew up at a time when the only images of Brezhnev on televiion always seemed to show him absolutley blotto and suspiciously upright as though a couple of men were standing behind him and holding him up. I don't speak Russian but to my ears he sounded as though he was slurring or in fact barely able to talk. It's remarkable that with this disability he was able to stay in power for so long which makes me doubt he was a complete drunkard. Remids me of Nixon, who loved a drink and Clinton who imbibed and in my own country where Hawke was a hero for loving a beer and Gorton was a known lush. (Hey I managed to cover both sides of politics in two countries lol!)
Brezhnev was very ill in the last years of his life, he had multiple strokes, a serious heart condition and some kind of degenerative nervous disorder. And its true, he was a heavy drinker and popped benzos like they were breath mints. He was kept in power by a small cabal of supporters who also de facto ran the USSR for a few years as Brezhnev became increasingly incapacitated. I guess they liked being in power but there were also well founded concerns that the lack of an obvious candidate to succeed him could lead to all kinds of chaos within the party, so he was kept in office for the sake of stability too.
@@-yeme- yep!as Russian I can say it’s an obsolete truth, though he wasn’t on benzos, like some Wehrmacht veteran. He was on pills in general, like the one to stay energised and the one before bed :) Elvis did almost the same
@варфоломей ночь there are benevolent dictators, such as tito and catherine the great. he didnt argue who was a good leader, he argued who was a democratically elected leader. and what does the population have anything to do with the era of stagnation?
@@ritzziebart4424 There is no God. Praxis is everything. Faith has never achieved anything in history, because the things it believes in do not exist. The next dictatorship to fall will be the worst genocidal terrorist regime in human history: the United States of America.
@Lucas De Araújo Marques Praxis is literally facts and science. And I wasn't alive 100 years ago, so I could've hardly said that. Anyway, dear scholar, recommend me some of those books then.
@@frustis the universe and the consistency of natural laws is a miracle, fit for God only. Who else put all the work in it? By having faith in God Newton assumed natural laws would be possible. So yes, modern science exists thanks to believing in God.
"From 1973 until his death, Brezhnev's central nervous system underwent chronic deterioration and he had several minor strokes as well as insomnia. In 1975 he suffered his first heart attack." wikipedia
@@slavenskazajednica7912 he did have a lifetime of heavy drinking behind him and i like to imagine that Stalin was the last Sovit premiere assassinated (by Beria, and he was executed for it).
I don't think he joking to be honest , he sincerely wanted to see Nixon take a sip first , if Nixon hadn't then I'm pretty positive brezhnev wouldn't have either
"Between 28 January and 3 February 1974, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev undertook a state visit to Cuba" and the head of Cuba would also not drink first and got good reason for that. Not to mention that JFK was assasinated in 1963 and in 1981 Regan got the plesure to be the target...
@@Bialy_1 both of you are crazy One believes that if the dude was really worried about his life that he would PROPOSE the drink in first place and then proceed to act as suspicious as humanely possible And the second believes that the Soviets killed his president and not OTHER AMERICAN INTERESTS (we could debate if they truly have a nation but anyway...) Americans...you guys need better schools...just sayin
@@Mikhail.Tolstykh so an American waiter in America hands them BOTH glasses of champagne.... and you think Brezhnev proposed it. The soviets were ABSOLUTELY PARANOID of American secret plots/attacks. This is well known. Who needs to learn more....
The zero trust in the room is pulsating along with the shifty eyes and uncertainty that anything could happen in the next second even though a peaceful mutual agreement is happneing lol
@@TarunKumar-vx1hq Indeed, but still, looking at modern politics I feel slightly nostalgic about two superpowers treating each other with some sort of respect as opposed to whatever going on now, which reminds me of school cliques.
Fun fact: “The "clinking" of glasses originated in the medieval days when wine was often spiked with poison as the sediment concealed it quite well. If a host wanted to prove that the wine wasn't poisoned, he would pour part of the guest's wine into his glass and drink it first. If the guest trusted his host he would just clink glasses when the host offered his glass for a sample. Hence the clinking of glasses has become a sign of trust, honesty and toast to good health”
@@adur6400 The force required would break the cup, you'd have little to sip since most would have spilled if you clashed cups with the intention of swapping cup fluids, and a few droplets of poisoned drink wouldn't do much against the conspirators even if they landed on their cups
Soviets poisoned the Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Sastri in Tashkent in 1965 when Breznev was heading Soviet Union. He had gone a State Visit and died in night there. His family remember his body which was brought back from Soviet Union to have turned blue. The death of Lal Bahadur Sastri enabled Socialist and mediocre Indira Gandhi to assume leadership Till date NO INQUIRY and NO POST MORTEM WAS DONE EVEN BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT !
Brezhnev was no comedian, he was old school all the way, fought in the Red Army, he was not a nice man on any accounts, he was a staunch supporter of Stalin and Stalinism, fun fact, he was from Ukraine
Easily one of the most laid back leaders of the Soviet Union. Also, he took Nixon for a car ride during the same visit, and scared him shitless because the old man LOVED to cruise.
He was the most humane so to speak of the CP gensecs until Gorbachev. He enjoyed watching Hollywood movies, Some like it hot with M. Monroe is the classical example, he enjoyed hunting, good company and a swim in the sea. Of all the gensecs he is the least divisive figure and his rule was the only time in Soviet history when the state let live its citizens a little. No wonder almost all who remember the post-war have better memories of the 70's rather than of the 50's, 60's or 80's.
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@@sir_humpy Yes, his "ЭТО ВАШЕ ДЕЛО" was extremely funny, as well as duly occupying Czechoslovakia and crushing the Prague Spring soon after. Don't be silly, Brezhnev was a hard totalitarian and a treacherous bastard - and his coffin ludicrously falling into the grave was one of the rare moments to cheer in Czechoslovakia at that time. Even Bilak's face at the funeral expresses contempt - and Bilak was one of Brezhnev's men in Czechoslovak party / government. 60s to 70s may have been a period of stability of the soviet regime, but if it was stability, it was stability of the tyranny.
Ehhhhh I kinda wanna explain a bit here. So basically the Russian tradition of drinking is that you always drink up whatever is in the cup (kinda like what we do with a shot), especially on special occasions. This could be an important way to show your honesty and respect. B just wanna follow N’s move, if N drinks up the champagne, B will do the same. But obviously, N just had a snip that’s why B did the same. It is critical to understand the cultural piece behind it. I hope to explain with logic because the title is very much an ignorant misleading one. Hope it helps.
yeah I highly doubt he'd suspect they'd poison him in such a meeting, and from the looks of it, Brezhnev was the one offering it to Nixon who nods in delight. It's probably along the lines of what you said, a culture thing.
The reason for cheers: To spill your drink into the others drinks, so if your drink poisoned, and has spilled into the other person drink, and the other person refuses to drink then you know you have had your drink tampered.
This is actually a myth. In ancient times, everyone would drink from one bowl that was passed around the table and when people upgraded to using individual cups, they wanted a way to make it feel more social, so they began putting them together in a way we now call cheers.
Brezhnev had a really nice sense of humour all his life. He was a nice man and good first secretary. The only one problem that he didn't have enough will to retire at his last years of life
@@Vchk1917 And Putin today. He wanted to retire at the end of his current term (should have been this year or next year, I think) and the others in the Russian Govt cant agree on a successor so they asked him to stay.
@@josefigueroa3930 Yeah - Putin wants Medvedev but the others dont agree - alledgedly. Libya happened under Mevedev last time he took over from Putin so they think he is too soft - so now you see Mevedev on Telegram every day with lots of hawkish comments trying to look tough.
Sometimes in the midst of the most nerve racking conflict we can recognize our own similarities rather than what we are conflicted by. It’s those moments we should dwell on, for that is where real progress comes from.
That’s why the cheers was made as a mutual gesture to spill contents of each other’s drink into each other’s drink after cheersing. Because on the off-chance there was poison, then both would die.
@@dimitristripakis7364 fr imagine if this situation happend to Biden for example. the WHOLE world should go crazy for no reason. especially with all the news and Twitter....
Also, it would have been unspeakably rotten and low-down to have poisoned Brezhnev at this ceremony. I'm so glad that the US govt was able to resist the urge to try an assination.
@@vermilion7777 what American diplomacy? I mean, look at it now. They're purposely dismantling every single global institution and going all in for one-sided policies "our decisions are your problems" (as in BW 1971, south America and etc.) Agree there was no point on doing this at the time, no cui bono. But it isn't like you can call the US having a diplomacy in the formal sense.
Consider how often they failed to assassinate Fidel Castro in their own backyard, I'm pretty sure something would have gone wrong if the US tried something here.
![Leonid Brezhnev New Year's Address (1979) [Subtitled]](/img/n.gif)
Joke’s on him. Nixon wouldn’t have passed up a drink even if it had been poisoned.
lol
Accurate! Of course, only a russian politician would too. Lol !
If only you wrote this joke 48 years ago! 😂🤣
Great great joke mate
neither would brezhnev.
This was the visit when Nixon and Brezhnev hoped in a car together and went out on a drive around Camp David causing the security detail of both to panic and chase after them not knowing if one had kidnapped the other. Turned out Brezhnev just wanted to drive an American car.
Is this actually real? 😂
Brezhnev owned over 100 vehicles. He loved collecting American cars. Apparently he was a manic behind the wheel and almost killed them both! I believe the car was a Lincoln, and it was there because Nixon was giving it to Brezhnev.
@@B52Stratofortress1 my father owns a Buick that was imported to USSR in 70s. Probably one from Brezhnev's garage too lol
@@xkenny1995 bruh
That's like when Krustschev wanted to go to Disneyland, but wasn't allowed to because of security constraints.
I remember this. I was 14 years old watching this. It was funny watching them two not trusting each other while drinking champagne. Lol!
Just to be sure TVs back then weren't coloured for the Majority of the population yes?
@@sbevexlr848
No, we do have color TV back then.
@@johnhunt9942 ahh ok then
you on your last legs then huh?
It was the 70s, people..not the 40s lol
Probably the two most powerful men at the time in a room together and he's just like "what if this was poisoned lmao"
Wouldve been hilarious if nixon pretended to choke
Knowing how high tensions were at the time his bodyguards would've caused a massive scene there lmao
roughly 74% of the room would shit a brick
@@rin_etoware_2989 nay the entire world would shit bricks if that happens.
@@yoga5631 American secret service probably would surround the area and take every soviet hostage
@@r.p5380 there was soviet secret service too
Brezhnev dies
"His drink was poisoned."
Nixon: "The whole bottle was poisoned. I've spent the past few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder."
Underrated comment :)
Inconceivable
@@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Stolen comment
@@zsealcat nah
The "clinking" of glasses originated in the medieval days when wine was often spiked with poison as the sediment concealed it quite well. If a host wanted to prove that the wine wasn't poisoned, he would pour part of the guest's wine into his glass and drink it first. If the guest trusted his host he would just clink glasses when the host offered his glass for a sample. Hence the clinking of glasses has become a sign of trust, honesty and toast to good health.
That’s awesome
Stolen comment
Back when you can get away with murder?
Yeah they used to poison each other like shit man
The more you know 🌠
I don't think Nixon quite caught that joke initially: holding his glass up to compare how full they were 😆 great exchange
"joke" you actually think this was a joke LOL.
@@vapeurdepisse Yeah, it was a joke...
Joke's on him, Nixon has the antidote.
Oh, the antidote? You mean the one he switched out with poison when Nixon wasn't looking?
Antidote. To the poison you just drank.
The poisin works very fast, Dr Jones.
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@@houssamassila6274 but He knew that Nixon knew that he knew about the poison and would switch it. So he knew that Nixon would switch it, so he switched it AGAIN
Wow what a stand up guy, he’s letting the host drink first before him. He’s so polite.
Brezhnev indeed was polite, but that was a joke... It seems American press of that time took that joke seriously
Soviet politeness lmfao
😂😂😂
Because there's no honor in death.
@@HTeo-og1lg Samurai: Am I a joke to you?
They both took a joke and created an iconic moment! Legendary!
Nixon: I have one thing you don't have
Brezhnev: What is that, comrade?
Nixon: The antidote
Nixon: "This is the finest champagne from Poland."
Brezhnev: "Polonium, you say?"
Champagne must be from France... otherwise it's just sparkling wine from Poland.
@@kingofdro no, the only good champagnes are from russia
Champagne only comes from France but good joke
@@gamm8939 at some ponit it came from germany
@@deathtrooper7760 I see what you did there, very good very good
I also love that it appears that Nixon thinks the joke is, “Did you get more champagne than me?” Only a true drinker would jump to that!
Maybe he was comparing the color in the spirit of the joke?
@@MrXsunxweaselx this is definitely the case
They also had to recheers because he left Nixon hanging
@@alexlo246 the 2nd one wasn't a cheers, Nixon was comparing the champagne levels
hahahaha
"What you having Mr Brezhnev? What's your poison"?
Brezhnev: "Novichoc".
Novichok
At the height of the Cold war, the leaders of the US and Soviet Union could talk. There seemed to be mutual respect on both sides. Today, the the American president calls his Russian counterpart a killer and still expects a cordial relationship that is based on mutual interests. How times change.
No, today Russia's president act like a thug and demands respect
But Putler is a killer. Stop crying
"still expects a cordial relationship" source? I don't think anyone expects that right now
Those were the times when even cut throat rivals used to be friendly in public appearances
American politicians are probably the most double faced out there. Touchy-feely in public appearances then threaten to nuke you when you leave.
@@jjampong The mid-1970s were honestly a time of detente, and the superpowers were aiming to ease the tentions in their relations. So it's not like Nixon was pretending to be nice, he seriously was trying to be nice and constructive. That doesn't mean that he liked commies. Of course he didn't like commies. Who would? But you can still behave civilized and try to be constructive.
@@jjampong come to India brother.. you will see politicians with 100 faces 😂
@@aritra1219 that’s actually a great joke bro 😂
@@jjampong don't act like you can make such assumptions, i bet u hardly know stuff about foreign politics.
There's a pinch of truth in every joke
There is much truth said in jest, but not all jest is true
There's might be a drop of Novichok in every Soviet/Russian glass
a pinch of joke in every joke you wonna say?
it has to be....otherwise wouldnt be funny
@@user-bl6mv4nv9h ага, а истории же никто и никогда никого не травил. Особенно политиков)
Next year, this video will be 50 years old. Wow.
Nixon: joke’s on you i have poison immunity
Breznev: joke’s on you i wanna die rather than stand here for another minute
Brezhnev: is it poison?
Nixon: no
*Both drink*
Nixon: it's rat poison
Brezhnev: good thing I'm not a rat
*Nixon starts choking*
hm
Can hear leslie nielsen from here lmao
🤣
Best one ive read hahah, he really looks like 1
At least he's not a commie
Despite his inglorious end, Nixon working with the Russians to sign this treaty was one of the most important moments of the 20th Century. It helped calm the reckless and cavalier nuclear arms race.
True! Thanks to Pdt. Nixon
Nixon doesn’t get a lot of the credit he deserves.
He was a paranoid lunatic who used his power to try to cover up Watergate (corruption)….. but he did accomplish some pretty good things during his presidency and maintainers an amazingly high approval rating up until Watergate happened
Cu, cu.
@@QueenetBowie too bad he started and really made the war on drugs take off....locked up millions prolly over the years for shit not deserving of it. now weve wasted trillions on it up to this day. one of the worst things ever implemented in American history honestly besides segregation of course.
Yeah Nixon pulled us out of Nam right?
Imagine Nixon saying i want to use the washroom just after taking a sip
Brezhnev must also have been quite the comic. The look on his face is precious. I couldn't stop laughing. 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah they are were so funny
Imagine if it was Brezhnev and Reagan. They probably would have done a 5 minute skit followed by half an hour of Russian/American jokes.
Krushchev had a sense of humor, but I always thought that Brezhnev did not. This little exchange is utterly charming.
Brezhnev had a sense of humor, but he was more, let's say, restrained compared to the utterly mega-energetic Kchruschev.
He had sense of humor, but much more restrained personality compared to Krushchev.
From "Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft,and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970-
1990 by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds" (on the Moscow Summit in 1972):
"Nixon set his preferred tone at the first plenary, delivering lengthy statements on the status of US-Soviet relations, and noting
that the two sides were ‘meeting here not because of sentiment, but because [the principals were] pragmatic men’. Brezhnev, by contrast, made far shorter contributions that were lighter on substance and interspersed with a few jokes in an attempt to break the ice... At their concluding one-on-one, the general secretary’s opening gambit was to tell Nixon a Russian ‘anecdote about the sex life of older men’. The prudish Nixon responded by noting how much he appreciated getting to know the general secretary but then immediately switched topics to the final communiqué."
@@tomcatst2467 So Nixon is stuffy jerk and Brezhnev is a cooky grandpa?
Just joking, of course.
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Did you know that the custom of toasting itself also has to do with poison?
During medieval times in Europe, poisoning was the main method that nobles used to get rid of a rival, and it was usually done during a feast. Frantically (much more so back then) clinking glasses while looking in each other's eyes was a polite way of ensuring each party that no poisoning shenanigans were going on, insofar as droplets of poison could spill from one glass into another, and the eyes of a potential perpetrator would give away his fear of accidentally poisoning himself while toasting
" ensuring each party that no poisoning shenanigans were going on" I like how you explain things hahah
This hoax again
This is the biggest shite talk I've ever heard. First off you wouldn't even have glasses you would have clay cups and no droplets would have a chance of going into one drink to another. The clinking is just to be friendly, its why peasants and nobles alike did it
@task force whisky source: trust me bro
@@juniorcrusher2245 not at all, the lad is actually right
I grew up at a time when the only images of Brezhnev on televiion always seemed to show him absolutley blotto and suspiciously upright as though a couple of men were standing behind him and holding him up. I don't speak Russian but to my ears he sounded as though he was slurring or in fact barely able to talk. It's remarkable that with this disability he was able to stay in power for so long which makes me doubt he was a complete drunkard.
Remids me of Nixon, who loved a drink and Clinton who imbibed and in my own country where Hawke was a hero for loving a beer and Gorton was a known lush. (Hey I managed to cover both sides of politics in two countries lol!)
Brezhnev was very ill in the last years of his life, he had multiple strokes, a serious heart condition and some kind of degenerative nervous disorder. And its true, he was a heavy drinker and popped benzos like they were breath mints. He was kept in power by a small cabal of supporters who also de facto ran the USSR for a few years as Brezhnev became increasingly incapacitated. I guess they liked being in power but there were also well founded concerns that the lack of an obvious candidate to succeed him could lead to all kinds of chaos within the party, so he was kept in office for the sake of stability too.
@@-yeme- yep!as Russian I can say it’s an obsolete truth, though he wasn’t on benzos, like some Wehrmacht veteran. He was on pills in general, like the one to stay energised and the one before bed :) Elvis did almost the same
Because the old "wait and see if he drinks," trick is so reliable. International meetings should have a BYOB rule.
So
none of that made sense
Jokes on him the poison is on the glass
please don't...
(Detective conan theme starts playing)
@@detectivemarkseven thank you. It was in one of the episodes 💕
@@detectivemarkseven YESS exactly what I was thinking
Nixon: "what you didn't know is that I have built up an immunity to iocane powder over the last few years."
ahhaha
Don't go up against a Siberian when death is on the line! Hahahah
I knew I'd find this comment
But... What in the world could that be?!
Yawn
Damn those eyebrows!!
Imagine one day he wakes up and there are no Eyebrows....
Byebrows. .. . . .
This is brilliant!
Brezhnev poisoned ass
He pointed at the drink and Nixon’s face was like fuck it my hangover is wearing off
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🤣🤣🤣
Brezhnev before stroke: Charismatic dictator
Brezhnev after stroke: rotatcid citamsirahc
@варфоломей ночь there are benevolent dictators, such as tito and catherine the great. he didnt argue who was a good leader, he argued who was a democratically elected leader. and what does the population have anything to do with the era of stagnation?
@@ritzziebart4424 There is no God. Praxis is everything. Faith has never achieved anything in history, because the things it believes in do not exist. The next dictatorship to fall will be the worst genocidal terrorist regime in human history: the United States of America.
@Lucas De Araújo Marques Praxis is literally facts and science. And I wasn't alive 100 years ago, so I could've hardly said that. Anyway, dear scholar, recommend me some of those books then.
@@frustis Reddit big chungus moment keanu reeves
@@frustis the universe and the consistency of natural laws is a miracle, fit for God only. Who else put all the work in it? By having faith in God Newton assumed natural laws would be possible. So yes, modern science exists thanks to believing in God.
And now Putin is like; poison, poison for everyone, free poison right here!
This takes "pick your poison" to a whole new level
"From 1973 until his death, Brezhnev's central nervous system underwent chronic deterioration and he had several minor strokes as well as insomnia. In 1975 he suffered his first heart attack." wikipedia
we're both thinking the same thing
until one or both of us aren't
Must be "coincidence".
@@slavenskazajednica7912 lol you liked your own comment nerd
@@slavenskazajednica7912 he did have a lifetime of heavy drinking behind him and i like to imagine that Stalin was the last Sovit premiere assassinated (by Beria, and he was executed for it).
Make it seem an accident...
I don't think he joking to be honest , he sincerely wanted to see Nixon take a sip first , if Nixon hadn't then I'm pretty positive brezhnev wouldn't have either
"Between 28 January and 3 February 1974, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev undertook a state visit to Cuba" and the head of Cuba would also not drink first and got good reason for that.
Not to mention that JFK was assasinated in 1963 and in 1981 Regan got the plesure to be the target...
@@Bialy_1 both of you are crazy
One believes that if the dude was really worried about his life that he would PROPOSE the drink in first place and then proceed to act as suspicious as humanely possible
And the second believes that the Soviets killed his president and not OTHER AMERICAN INTERESTS (we could debate if they truly have a nation but anyway...)
Americans...you guys need better schools...just sayin
@@Mikhail.Tolstykh so an American waiter in America hands them BOTH glasses of champagne.... and you think Brezhnev proposed it. The soviets were ABSOLUTELY PARANOID of American secret plots/attacks. This is well known. Who needs to learn more....
You're right Vice Roy
It's the glass edge that could be rubbed with some poison. I think putting it in the drink is too obvious.
The gesture of clinking the glasses has the same origin, you did it with jugs, hard enpugh that a little of it gets to the other jug
The zero trust in the room is pulsating along with the shifty eyes and uncertainty that anything could happen in the next second even though a peaceful mutual agreement is happneing lol
Nixon: *puts champagne in his mouth*
Brezhnev: Okay it's safe *drinks champagne*
Nixon: *spits the champagne right away*
Brezhnev: YOOO WTF!!!
That expression of Nixon on 0:25 when Brezhnev points to the drinks is priceless!
Like a: "A man's got to do what a man's got to do"
🤣 well spotted
Yeah 😎
alcoholic's reaction 😁
Spot on 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤝😄
Nixon's like: "It's about time we got to the good part."
His gaze making 100 percent sure he’s actually drinking it
Both had such a strong eyebrow game
Lmfao the way Brezhnev looks at Nixon drinking kills me 🤣
Yo mama
@@oasis1282 thank you.
He was about to whip out a big magnifying glass!
Cold war in a nutshell
Suspicion and more suspicions
When the communists are sus !!!! 😳😳😳
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And even than, they had a grudging respect towards each other and worked together when needed.
@@ShadowSumacwhile They had respect outwardly , that's not the case with their proxies who suffered the most
@@TarunKumar-vx1hq Indeed, but still, looking at modern politics I feel slightly nostalgic about two superpowers treating each other with some sort of respect as opposed to whatever going on now, which reminds me of school cliques.
“And now you give me the diamond”
ok
Okey dokey dr jones
Так он не только по этому поводу "угарал" над Никсоном.
А как он не давал Никсону списывать во время подписания документов!?
Fun fact: “The "clinking" of glasses originated in the medieval days when wine was often spiked with poison as the sediment concealed it quite well. If a host wanted to prove that the wine wasn't poisoned, he would pour part of the guest's wine into his glass and drink it first. If the guest trusted his host he would just clink glasses when the host offered his glass for a sample. Hence the clinking of glasses has become a sign of trust, honesty and toast to good health”
very fun
@Jon Hesson really? Why?
@Jon Hesson ok prove it false then
@Jon Hesson nah... u cap 🧢
@@adur6400 The force required would break the cup, you'd have little to sip since most would have spilled if you clashed cups with the intention of swapping cup fluids, and a few droplets of poisoned drink wouldn't do much against the conspirators even if they landed on their cups
He only acted like he was joking, but he actually wasn't.
This is not comedy Central. You don't joke with brezbev life
@@xlncy you are right. It is not comedy central.
It is worse..
Everything I've found points to Brezhnev suggesting to Nixon that they toast, not the other way around.
I learned more about history from COD campaign than I ever did in history class lol
Spooked the caterpillars right off his face!
Humor is solution to 90% of the problems 😂
and, in these PC-ridden days, is the cause of the remaining 10%.
Soviets poisoned the Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Sastri in Tashkent in 1965 when Breznev was heading Soviet Union. He had gone a State Visit and died in night there. His family remember his body which was brought back from Soviet Union to have turned blue. The death of Lal Bahadur Sastri enabled Socialist and mediocre Indira Gandhi to assume leadership
Till date NO INQUIRY and NO POST MORTEM WAS DONE EVEN BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT !
That's why Trump was so effective. I miss him.
You have probably not seen the smiling assassins...
@@ravindrathakkar1234 interesting. Never heard about this theory until now
Nixon’s head looked amazingly cartoonish
You just have seen him mainly as a cartoon i suppose ;)
Yeah, he looks like he's from a Tintin movie or something
Game recognizes game.
Is killin it with his brows
I remember Brezhnez being in power, but I never knew he was a bit of a comedian. These historical recordings are priceless really.
He wasn't joking at all 🤦♂️
Brezhnev was no comedian, he was old school all the way, fought in the Red Army, he was not a nice man on any accounts, he was a staunch supporter of Stalin and Stalinism, fun fact, he was from Ukraine
Easily one of the most laid back leaders of the Soviet Union.
Also, he took Nixon for a car ride during the same visit, and scared him shitless because the old man LOVED to cruise.
He was the most humane so to speak of the CP gensecs until Gorbachev. He enjoyed watching Hollywood movies, Some like it hot with M. Monroe is the classical example, he enjoyed hunting, good company and a swim in the sea. Of all the gensecs he is the least divisive figure and his rule was the only time in Soviet history when the state let live its citizens a little. No wonder almost all who remember the post-war have better memories of the 70's rather than of the 50's, 60's or 80's.
@@sir_humpy Yes, his "ЭТО ВАШЕ ДЕЛО" was extremely funny, as well as duly occupying Czechoslovakia and crushing the Prague Spring soon after. Don't be silly, Brezhnev was a hard totalitarian and a treacherous bastard - and his coffin ludicrously falling into the grave was one of the rare moments to cheer in Czechoslovakia at that time. Even Bilak's face at the funeral expresses contempt - and Bilak was one of Brezhnev's men in Czechoslovak party / government.
60s to 70s may have been a period of stability of the soviet regime, but if it was stability, it was stability of the tyranny.
Ehhhhh I kinda wanna explain a bit here. So basically the Russian tradition of drinking is that you always drink up whatever is in the cup (kinda like what we do with a shot), especially on special occasions. This could be an important way to show your honesty and respect. B just wanna follow N’s move, if N drinks up the champagne, B will do the same. But obviously, N just had a snip that’s why B did the same. It is critical to understand the cultural piece behind it. I hope to explain with logic because the title is very much an ignorant misleading one. Hope it helps.
Im glad russian tradition was explained by a guy named jason zheng
@@Steallio ahhh I grow up east Russia
yeah I highly doubt he'd suspect they'd poison him in such a meeting, and from the looks of it, Brezhnev was the one offering it to Nixon who nods in delight. It's probably along the lines of what you said, a culture thing.
@@jasonzheng9022 im joking my man
@@Steallio all good bro, but actually that was kinda funny, hahaha
I loughed the way he was looking.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now lets remember; it was in from of cameras and both were experienced actors.
he didn't survive years of Stalin's rule by trusting people.
This is 100% the truth.
Yes
Soviet Hitler
@@josephstalin9712 xD
Boo hoo stalin did nothing wrong
Joke’s on him- Nixon spent the last decade building up a resistance to iocane powder.
😂Brezhnev , great 👍°
Now u just see a weird light and got a lump on your head the next day
I was waiting for him to ask the aide standing behind them to taste it first. Either that or trying to swap cups, Princess Bride style.
Fun fact: only his cup had poison.
*plot twist lol
I know its a joke and I know some dumb ass redditor is going to come here and whoosh me but... ITS NOT A FACT, fun for sure though.
@@aluminium5738 better clear my throat for this
r/woooosh
@@SuperchargedHornet legend
But he takes lesson from Vizzini,the most intelligent man in the world ;D
Brezhnev was hilarious. He should have gone on tour.
That shows that politeness is a good habit nothing else.
Always loved Brezhnev's eyebrows.
The fact that there's people there that catched the joke is amazing
That face is iconic
Wholesome
The reason for cheers: To spill your drink into the others drinks, so if your drink poisoned, and has spilled into the other person drink, and the other person refuses to drink then you know you have had your drink tampered.
This is actually a myth. In ancient times, everyone would drink from one bowl that was passed around the table and when people upgraded to using individual cups, they wanted a way to make it feel more social, so they began putting them together in a way we now call cheers.
@@pgtv14 deez
Comrade Brezhnev looks in very good health at this point
Unfortunately not, he had a very careless life.
By the 70s he had his first stroke.
Imagine feeling so nervous that you need to make a deal with these people what is intense moment I bet
Brezhnev had a good sense of humor))
Brezhnev had a really nice sense of humour all his life. He was a nice man and good first secretary. The only one problem that he didn't have enough will to retire at his last years of life
I've heard he wanted to retire, but nobody let him...
@@user-ph6ej4mk4z Same with Stalin, there's actually a request that he made to retire after the war, but the Party didn't let him.
@@Vchk1917 And Putin today. He wanted to retire at the end of his current term (should have been this year or next year, I think) and the others in the Russian Govt cant agree on a successor so they asked him to stay.
@@johncale1849 really?
@@josefigueroa3930 Yeah - Putin wants Medvedev but the others dont agree - alledgedly. Libya happened under Mevedev last time he took over from Putin so they think he is too soft - so now you see Mevedev on Telegram every day with lots of hawkish comments trying to look tough.
Sometimes in the midst of the most nerve racking conflict we can recognize our own similarities rather than what we are conflicted by. It’s those moments we should dwell on, for that is where real progress comes from.
*Looks at eachother* Simultaneously thinks, did you just poison me?
That’s why the cheers was made as a mutual gesture to spill contents of each other’s drink into each other’s drink after cheersing. Because on the off-chance there was poison, then both would die.
Ahhh the good old days. Rumor has it that Leo was quite the lady’s man. 😂😂😂😂
That would give the media content for months!
Today, not back then. Back then it was just a joke. People were much funnier.
@@dimitristripakis7364 fr imagine if this situation happend to Biden for example. the WHOLE world should go crazy for no reason. especially with all the news and Twitter....
No joke at all.
that's no joke - totally sincere
Plot twist: it wasn't humour, Brezhnev was serious all along
He had the best eyebrows ever. 👁️👁️
Like today's young girl, that have to many inspirations from Instagram 😄
Rumor has it they could land an entire air wing of Mig 21s on them incase their runways were blown up.
Typical of massive Russian eyebrows.
@@swaldron5558 i think he is a little bit tatar/mongolian ??
Better be safe than sorry. 😅
Figured he was gonna switch glasses.
Jokes on him...both are targets for assignation.
More humor, less war.
He wasn’t making a joke 😂
My man got mustaches for eyebrows.
I'd also like to express MY fondness for that particular champagne.
what a great reference. Kudos
The man never drank a glass of champagne in his life!
“Here comrade drink this.”
“Sir?”
“For the motherland.”
“Yes sir!.Taste great actually.”
“….Give back my drink.”
FYI I’m pretty sure the SEE I A can give you a pre-antidote before the poison shot.
Perfect example of "Trust but verify 😂"
This is the only time in Brezhnev's life he has ever refrained from drinking
Give that man a break. Let him enjoy his drink
Это ты сам придумал?
Also, it would have been unspeakably rotten and low-down to have poisoned Brezhnev at this ceremony. I'm so glad that the US govt was able to resist the urge to try an assination.
Why should they? There was literally no point. It would've been the end of american diplomacy.
@@vermilion7777 what American diplomacy? I mean, look at it now.
They're purposely dismantling every single global institution and going all in for one-sided policies "our decisions are your problems" (as in BW 1971, south America and etc.)
Agree there was no point on doing this at the time, no cui bono. But it isn't like you can call the US having a diplomacy in the formal sense.
I mean, at this point why bother. He would just be replaced like the the ones before him and the ones to follow.
Consider how often they failed to assassinate Fidel Castro in their own backyard, I'm pretty sure something would have gone wrong if the US tried something here.
I would ask to exchange the glasses. He drinks my glass and i drink his glass. XD