in his later years before brezhnev was due to appear in public doctors would give him strong drugs to help in focus even then he couldn't concentrate for more than ten minutes . worth of heart attacks and stroke certainly undermined his health is at the top of a brace now if was dependent on sleeping pills. all of that together made him completely to crap an. integral vehicles was letting. us build up the general secretary was known to have patronized the woman at some point without doctors know and she began supply brezhnev with large amounts of sleeping pills and general secretary suffered from insomnia. i tried to press on him and psychologically when i was talking to lay in it so i would say you know you should get rid of the nurse nina he everyone of us divorced but i think including a drop of. her influence on him was tremendous. eventually pressure never agreed to play call of his relationship with us. make his parting with the the tourist woman less painful he switched his attention to his favorite pastime hunting an expedition was arranged for him and the criminals medics int

there was a wonderful time when remember when brezhnev died, and they had a state funeral and then you had andropov and you had chernenko. carolyn, my wife, and i were very good friends with the italian ambassador at that time. we were over at his house, and he was telling us he was going to moscow for the funeral of i think it was chernenko. he really loved opera. i said to him, you're really going to the funeral? he says yes, ken. don't you understand? i bought tickets to the entire series. [ laughter ] >> likewise, i recall many hours wasted on cia overthinking gorbachev's economic programs. like that old story of horse meat in oklahoma, the more you chew the bigger it gets, on this the more i learned, the bigger my ignorance. with growing frustration, i decided to sit down one evening and actually read an entire gorbachev speech on the economy that was recently done. initially, i figured the translation must be awfully confused. then i realized it was gorbachev who was awfully confused. he had absolutely no idea how his or any economy actually worked. here in the economic sphere at

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much the same it's got a headline on the front talking about talking about six more years to equal brezhnev's eighteen years in power that's another big gun in the anti cretin commentry movement here in the shape of carding he was the guardian's correspondent in moscow for a long time they began got a double page spread the headline across here says that the result was. isn't in doubt but so you're a voting habits die pretty hard to picture here is a polling station over a pensioner casting her vote in a sort of ballot suit case. that's a response to these allegations of carousel very saying the newspapers here are talking a lot about how it's alleged that voters were bussed around to several polling stations the comment here says that the votes were talking about having voted against something rather than facing for something so against chaos rather than for putin the mail goes down again pretty much same reach opposition cries for. wins election landslides there's a cartoon next the headline here which is a picture of a father talking a son into his bed at night and he says the caption read

i'm calling it the brezhnev primary. that will give him delegates for free. he'll get massachusetts, and in idaho, the mormon vote will help him out. the question is what can we win in the south. you have oklahoma, tennessee, georgia, and ohio and he has to do well at least in two of those, or he'll hit the rocks again, at least in perception. >> rose: i want to come back to what romney should do now but i want to stay with the notion of michigan. i take no pride asking questions in the evening they ask in the morning, but this question-- did romney win this or did santorum lose it? >> santorum lost this. i totally agree with mike. if he had performed well at the debate and put together an economic populace message that went to his blue collar background, he would have won michigan and i think the blood would have been in the water, and the sharks would have surrounded him and he could not have recovered from that. in the end, rick santorum lost that. ultimately, why rick santorum had a chance which is why everybody else has a chance is mitt romney is a very

. >> masha, certainly he's not a dictator like stalin or khrushchev or brezhnev were, right gentlem right? >> it's hard to rank dictators on a scale. it's dangerous for people in opposition. journalists have been killed. opposition activists have been called and it's a current where there's no real democracy and no independent media. >> meanwhile, i was fascinated by the book, the beginning when you talk about as a little kid he was kind of a bully, right? >> or at least that's the way he chose to portray himself. the thing about putin is that before he was in the public eye he was a secret police agent. his entire early life was secret so he got to write his own story which i think is very telling. if you look at what this man chose to tell the world that he's a street thug basically, he has trouble controlling his temper. >> do you think he's done good things for the nation, though? >> i don't. he has been extremely lucky. he has ridden the oil boom in russia. but along the way what he has done is he's instituted an extremely corrupt system of state capitalism basically amassing a lot o

vladimir putin and not ruling out re-election again that will give him a longer tenure than leonid brezhnev. >> next time they won't have to have an election. >> because? >> because he's putin. >> how would you like to bring more than half a million bucks a year for doing next to nothing? modern day mobsters have figured out a way and they have the unions to thank. >> it sounds like general motors are pulling the plug on the chevy volt bringing production to a halt for a while. what does that mean for the white house? wasn't the volt one of the president's pet projects? stuart varney up early for a new week, standing by and taking a right turn into studio e. he's next on "fox & friends." wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. ♪ oh yeah ♪ 'cause i believe in you and me ♪ ♪ oh boy ♪ i believe in miracles ♪ and i believe in you and me ♪ ♪ see i was lost ♪ now i'm free [ jennifer ] go on. join for free. ♪ 'cause i believe in you... [ jennifer ] believe. because it works. weight watchers. but i wanted more support for my