Yu Jian

The cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union that broke out in the second half of last century was cruel. The two superpowers aimed at each other with nuclear weapons, which made people all over the world unhappy. However, during this period, the United States and the Soviet Union each contributed a leader, adding a lot of comedy atmosphere to this cruel cold war.

Ronald Reagan, an American, is of course called "Duan Zi Shou". Many jokes made by the president who used to be a second-rate actor in his speech are still fresh in people's memory. However, Reagan, who devoted himself to telling jokes, was still not as funny as his Soviet rival Brezhnev. It was the seriousness of his long-term rule that finally pulled the Soviet Union into the abyss of extinction.

1966 On March 29th, at the 23rd Congress of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev was officially elected as the first secretary of the Soviet Union and ascended the supreme power throne of the Soviet Union.

To be more specific, Brezhnev came to power not because he was capable, but because he was too mediocre. As a typical bureaucrat who started as a locksmith and climbed to the central part of the Soviet Union step by step, Brezhnev experienced a series of Soviet-style palace dramas from "purges" to "overthrowing Khrushchev". However, because he is so mediocre that no one treats him like a dish, he actually.

After Khrushchev stepped down, all sides were at daggers drawn. Nobody wants the powerful opponent to gain the highest power, so they have a discussion. Finally, they decided to let Brezhnev, who looked the most timid, be the first secretary, because "everyone can rest assured ... he can't do anything anyway" (former Soviet Union communist party members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Secretary of the Central Secretariat suslov).

Brezhnev also became the supreme ruler of the country because of incompetence, setting a historical record.

However, the bosses who thought Brezhnev was behind the scenes forgot that once an "honest man" threatened, it was often more deadly than a cruel man.

Maybe his first half of life was too mediocre. Brezhnev always tried to make up for the "wonderful life" after he took office. As for his "make-up" method, he is quite ingenious-he awarded himself a medal. According to statistics, he won 1 14 medals in his life, and was known as the "king of medals", setting a Guinness record. If you wear all these medals, it is estimated that his chest, back and trousers will be full.

So at that time, there was a joke in the Soviet Union, saying, "Comrade First Secretary should have breast enhancement surgery, otherwise the medal will really become invalid." .

Not only that, Brezhnev also likes the title of "national hero" very much. Every time he visits abroad, the Soviet diplomat should take the initiative to contact the country and ask others to award him the title of "hero". Therefore, Brezhnev is also a "hero" of more than 20 countries including Mongolia, Cuba, Vietnam, Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary. As for the Soviet Union, Brezhnev won the title of "Soviet hero" four times.

Brezhnev won so many medals and honors, but he never did anything commensurate with these honors during his reign. His predecessor Khrushchev had already started the reform of the Soviet Union, but Brezhnev stopped the "reform" immediately after he took office, and the Soviet Union, which had just begun to thaw, returned to the horrible atmosphere of Stalin's era.

Brezhnev was a bit senile in his later years, which led to more and more jokes. The most famous one was at the opening ceremony of the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980. Brezhnev, who was used to following the script, took out the welcome speech written by his secretary for him and unexpectedly didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union issued a series of inexplicable "cheers": "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! " What do you mean, someone in the place is shocked? Is this a special way to greet guests? Only Bob's secretary understood and went over to remind him: "Comrade Secretary, that's not five O's, that's the five-ring emblem of the Olympic Games, and the text is in the next line."

It is said that after Brezhnev made this big joke, all the guests at the Olympic Games kept a strange silence. Because after all, no one dares to laugh at the general secretary, but after all, this joke is too funny. It is said that many people off the court scraped their thighs to suppress laughter.

However, under the mediocre and funny Brezhnev's rule, the Soviet Union was equally mediocre and funny behind the seemingly powerful, with its wrong national policies, rigid economic system and lifeless culture, and everything smelled of dying carrion.

Brezhnev died two years later. After another nine years, the seemingly powerful Soviet Union disintegrated. It was a comedy that made people want to laugh but didn't dare to laugh during Brezhnev's rule, which finally created a national tragedy that made the Soviet people want to cry.