Leonid Brezhnev And His Impressive Luxury Car Collection
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A joke my pastor used to tell:
Brezhnev was so proud of his car collection, he brought his mother to the Kremlin garage one day so she could admire them too. "Look at all these beautiful cars!" he said. His mother, now pushing 90 and getting senile, looked at him with worried tears, and said, "But Leonid, what will you do when the Communists come and take them all away?"
😂
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. It's good to be the Commissar of Needs.
Brezhnev, the Jay Leno of the USSR
A fun story about the 1973 Lincoln, depicted briefly at 10:08 ...upon being given the car, Brezhnev enthusiastically jumped into the driver's seat, then beckoned Nixon to join him as a passenger. Once Nixon closed the passenger door, Brezhnev promptly hit the ignition and began driving off. He then took Nixon on an impromptu trip around Camp David, often at high rates of speed, and in the process scared the hell out of both Nixon and his Secret Service detail.
All the red Czars lived in luxury while their subordinates suffered or at best had cabbage soup.
This is the propaganda bullshit. Having only cabbage soup and only one brand of everything, except tabacco, is how a good communist likes it. Having nutricious food is for the capitalist pigs.
he got to power, through a coup d'état. and corruption increased in his day
Greed at its finest.
Communism at its best.
Would have been hilarious to see Leonid as guest star in Jay Leno's Garage :)
"Some guy named Chuck Connors...." He was the first NBA player to break a backboard, and then he played MLB for the Cubs, and then he was the Rifleman on TV for years.
Branded.....
Interesting video but its a perfect example of a saying im reminded of "All Animals are Created Equal But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others......
I love your videos. So much history and very entertaining.
Glad you like them!
Brilliant video Sergei, great to see such rare GAZ Chaika cars and I'm so happy to see that everyone in USSR were so equal 🤣🤣
Mercedes discontinued the 600 limos in 1981 after a magazine report the majority of owners were third world dictators. Brezhnev also got one of my favorite cars a 1969 Okdsmobile Toronado from the Canadians.
My mother-in-law had a '69 Olds Toronado. It was a beast and she loved it!
If you can only have one vehicle it should be a pickup truck. Or an SUV with a trailer and tow hitch. 😊👍
Brezhnev was quite a character, and he was in for 20yrs ... still, I did not expect so many cars!
Did he give these cars on to others in the Soviet gov't as 'party' favors?
Rules for thee; not for me.
Yep! The gun grabbers want rules like that now.
@@richiesrestorations4883 We keep electing the sons of the rich and privileged and they are eat up with personality disorders and insulated from the day to day realities that we face. It doesn't matter if they are Republican or Democrat.....
Yep you hit the nail on the head.
I just love the notion of Brezhnev thinking "I'd tap that" in regards to Jill. I'm not even into most redheads, and I'd "tap that". :P
I mostly know her from the Bond flick Diamonds are Forever, as she had mostly stopped acting by the time I was born (I'm a few years younger than you).
She has been married to Robert Wagner (another big name from back in the day) for 30+ years... he's the one who caused Natalie Wood to drown off the coast of California one night she was out there with Wagner and Christopher Walken (they were filming Brainstorm at the time, and were on a break).
Gotta hand it to Comrade Brezhnev, the guy had taste and he had swag for days and of course the raised Volga was pure krunk. If he'd put hydraulics on that thing it would have been perfect.
6:40 I have NEVER seen that style of merc before and I am fascinated.
Brezhnev always looked to me to be a close relative to Bela Lugosi !
Ok, I had to go look it up, so it was a pair of Colt revolvers Chuck Connors gave to Brehznev.
All excellent vehicles. B had good taste in cars and firearms. Was he a watch collector?
A video about Armand Hammer would be very interesting, if you haven't done one already!
This could be a new TV series , "Czars and their Cars" 😉
That clip of Brezhnev refusing politely to drink his champagne glass until Nixon drank from his glass first was priceless. As an American when I hear the name Brezhnev that’s the first thing that pops into my mind. That and Brezhnev falling asleep all the time at functions in his golden years. I’m surprised you said many people living in the USSR during his years as General Secretary thought so positively about him. You said something along the lines of people living better while Brezhnev was in power. It was at 1:06 about Brezhnev living well and letting others live well too. It surprises me because in hindsight Brezhnev took over the USSR at the peak of its success and power and by the time Brezhnev died in 1982 the USSR was already starting to collapse. It’s like being handed a brand new Ferrari and giving back an old and heavily dented Volkswagen bug. I would have thought the Soviet people would hold him most responsible for the long term fall or decline of the USSR.
Well, the collapse didn't happen while Brezhnev was alive despite being a big contribution to such. Same reason why in America President Hoover is looked down upon in the popular consciousness since he was the president when the Great Depression happened despite the problems happening well before his presidency. The thing about hindsight is it's not clear at the beginning but overtime we understood it more...
You called him "Leonid Gorbachev" at the beginning😅
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@@kingfuqurmahmen6792 🤣🤣
5:50 while the maserati is kind of a kickback, when you are talking whole mass-volume car companies and the leader of the actual Soviet Union, a single maserati is a mere bauble
I'm sure all corrupt politicians view their kickbacks as "mere baubles". You shouldn't feel the need to defend them, especially when they are the leader of a "workers paradise". The dude let his people languish and his country decay while he lived as a czar. Pissing down their backs and telling them its raining.
Эх, dear Leonid Ilyich..In fact, he left a lot of various interesting stories behind him .. I'm sure the audience will be very interested in listening to many of them, including the so-called "байки" a yarn ))
He seemed to prefer luxo American land yachts if Lincolns was his favorite plus had a Caddy and a Chrysler convertible. All the cars are interesting.
Quattroporte is a sexy way of saying...
four doors.
Perhaps the most unimaginative name for a car ever.
Though Road is a challenger.
Jill St. John was dating Henry Kissinger at that time. Kissinger was a bit of a playboy and dated few actresses in the 70's
No kidding! So much for a girl that was making out with 007
Wow nice cars, almost as many as Jay Leno.
I had been wondering what Nissan it was that was given to him. Evidentially that Nissan was their equivalent to Toyotas Century.
He was unlike Jerry Lewis, who said: "The Killer don't ride in no Chevrolet"
Brezhnev, owner of many cars and the most epic eyebrows in history. 🤣🤣🤣
Funny Breshnev
6:47 Sadly, his Italian comrades took it as a joke too. We could have seen him café-racing around Kremlin in Ferrari 365 GTB.
Some people are more equal
The GAZ 4wd is great wish I could get one
I wouldn't be surprised if Leonid Brezhnev was friends with Jay Leno. They probably would've traded automobiles like baseball cards!
I thought I read that Brezhnev asked Nixon if he could have a 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo cause he had read that it was Motor Trend Car of the Year…
Sergei,
30 Dec 1922 is the day the 4 founding members of the Soviet Union (RSFSR, Ukraine SSR, Belorussian SSR and TSFSR) ratified the Union Treaty, officially establishing the USSR as a unified nation-state (and the world's 1st socialist state)
Are you planning to do a 100th anniversary special?
I wasn't but probably will now. Thanks for the reminder!
What about convertible so Comrade Brezhnev feel wind through large, luscious eyebrows?
Funny how the boxy and graceless 73 Lincoln Continental was Brezhnev's favorite car. 😄To my eye the 70's were the low point in American automobile design.
european here for us 70s american car are the best design
@@glomibabel1894 Thank you for your reply. Really? I'm happy to hear that. But you really think 1970's cars look better than the tail fins of the late 1950's? (NOT trying to start an argument. That's a real question. :) )
@@seanledden4397 maybe it is due to movies l figure
@@glomibabel1894 That would be fun! Now I wish I had a car from the 70's. :)
I agree. I was a teen in the 70s and then felt that things went downhill from about 1972 onward. Loved the 60s cars.
If you have time, would you tell us about the history of the Zil cars? Weren't they "copied" from western luxury limousines? Or is that not true?
they were originally packard inspired but after the 111D they were completely unique clean sheet soviet designs. same with the 2nd generation chaika
Facts
will you make a video about Galina?
Oh I forgot the lifted up all wheel drive Volga combined with the fact he loved to hunt looks like Mr Brezhnev had a redneck side to him that actually makes me laugh.
He was a car guy Stalin was too but Stalin was a one car guy that’s probably were the policy originated.
Well I like cars also if I was working for the government I would take free cars also
He’s the jay leno of ussr
Sergei you should check out "Lady Izdihar" on RUclips she does videos on the USSR, can't say I'm a fan but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
😄 Thank you! I felt lke I'm back in 1983, listening to my history teacher. She repeats Soviet version of the world events 1:1
@@UshankaShow Haha, well I certainly appreciate your feedback. Unfortunate to hear that antiquated worldview lives on
This reminds me of NK leader Kim Jung-Un on how he has all the valuable things from the West while peoples are starving.
Where did you get the info that a person could own only 1 car in the USSR? I tried to search it on google, but could not find any usable sources about this topic. But I know a guy who owned 2 cars in the 70s-80s, both legally registered on his name. He also owned 2 garages (in the same cooperative), 1 motorcycle and 1 motorboat. And he was not in the government, just a guy with official monthly income of about 600 rubles. I'm wondering, If it was illegal, how did he manage to buy 2 cars and 2 garages? Bribing the officials is unlikely, because everyone knew that he had 2 cars, so somebody would most likely report on him, if it was illegal.
I remember reading about it in the Russian sources. I need to research again
@@UshankaShow The inventor of the Rubix Cube was the only official millionaire in a communist country.
Because womens senting to Soviet was odd, they did sent cars to Brezhnev.
100 km/hr is 62 mph. 240 km/hr would be about 142 mph. Nothing to sneeze at.
Same Mercedes as Idi Amin.
A friend of mine told me that Boney M was really popular in the USSR. Is that true?
Yes, absolutely! More than popular
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Brezhnev didn’t seem all that bad,he liked what most men like. Women and cars… 😂
LOL it seems that Leonid best hunting pal was drug (comarade) and marshall Tito commie ruler of Yugoslavia. Mercedes 600 was a car of his taste, and his car fleet had only six pieces of extended Pullmans; some six door limousines, some six door landaulets.
Well, Pope of Rome and Queen Elizabeth only had one Pullman, Leonid and other dictators had one Pullman as well, rock stars like Elvis Presley had one Mercedes 600 limousine of regular size, but comarade Tito had six extended pieces.
Actually young Tito was a Daimler employee, so I guess he remains faithfull to Daimler flagship brand and he had obligation to advertise ex employer premium product or maybe he was just an Hochstapler.
I don't really get it how can the leader of a socialist state be so materialistic/bourgeois when his subjects can't even acquire his same level of status.
'Leonid gorbachev'...?
Just appalling. I would be surprised the people didn't string him up but I have watched some documentaries about Stalin and they expected the leader to look impressive. In the doc I watched, the tailors brought several suits for Stalin to see, and he fussed about them being too fancy. He also wore the same pair of boots forever and ever. Its OK to have a couple of nice cars but such a huge collection is terrible. I'm sorry that he didn't have a tragic accident in one.
നമ്മടെ ഇവിടെ എല്ലാ ലീഡർസും ഹിന്ദുസ്ഥാൻ മോട്ടോഴ്സ് അംബാസഡർഇൽ ഇരുന്ന് ആയിരുന്നു യാത്ര, 1991ൽ ലോക മാർക്കറ്റിൽ ചേരുന്നത് വരെ.
If you had the means to get more cars , could you get away with it by putting the cars in other people names? Anyone do car sharing/renting to make some money on the side such as someone paying you to use your car to take s trip?
Hahahahaha, the cheapstick Honecker gave him the cheapest model avaible in int w116 line.
#detroit, bay-bee!
More medals then Jukov😂
You missed one car every German knows about.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Petersberg#Distinguished_guests_on_the_Petersberg
You used the picture of him inside this car quite often in this video. The story is covered quite alot, but I can only find german sources.