brezhnev did indeed. oh, they're coming after you like professor newmark did, about whether this is really so peaceful or not. brezhnev did indeed want to a direct war with the united states. but in almost all other respects, he was a devoted of the use force. here comes the he oversaw a large scale invasion of czechoslovakia in 1968, which you mentioned he oversaw the provision of enormous quantities of weaponry to the vietnamese communists in the war against the united states. he oversaw a large scale to cuban forces in wars in africa. he oversaw invasion of afghanistan, which you just he mobilized forces in 1980, 81 in case the soviet union decided to invade poland. i'll stop at this point because going i think you get the message and so this i think that people looking for between great power or catastrophic war and regional war for something and gaining advantage everywhere else. well i agree. i mean mark, i completely agree. and that's why i mentioned conflicts as well in my earlier comments. brezhn

i played brezhnev in the film.eonid brezhnev, leader of russia, and he was the biggest leader of all time since putin. now brezhnev wanted dÉtente, and he and reagan met because nixon was a very close friend of brezhnev's. but then they pushed nixon out of course. and then brezhnev had no partner in jimmy carter. carter in the left. he had no partner much like putin had no partner. now, since they what happened in 2020? and finally, when reagan was elected, they were going to approach dÉtente. they wrote letters back and forth. but then reagan died and brezhnev died. and the similar many similarities between the way the left wing in america and i want to show i love the points you're making and i 100% agree with you. i want to show the audience a little bit more from the movie, because i think it's important and special for them to watch. let's take a look at one of your scenes. we will win. i've been warning about this man for many years. i finally. commerce secretary, i have prepared dozens of these documents. ye

yeah and i mean brezhnev loved raw hide and american cowboy films.eresting, but this movie is just -- spectacular film and it echoes what we're seeing today reagan assassination attempt, trump assassination attempt, bot- [laughter] a state that has corrupt element to it, and then also communism and reagan as we know has been doing that since 1946. you know, i don't know if you know the story about reagan and idalpino hollywood elite in 1946 -- >> i don't know that i do. >> 1946 who is let's say the meryl streep of her day has a meeting of the communist party, in hollywood -- and all of the george clooneys everybody of that era were there william tells reagan about this in 1946, and reagan goes to speak at this meeting. and they shout him down they won't let him speak and finally one actor stands on a chair a guy named john garfield great actor says has a right to speak reagan spoke for 45 minutes, an hour and then years later the actor in the god father that punches al pacino says ronald reagan was a one man wrecking crew of the communist party in ho

now, brezhnev wanted detente and they met because nixon was a very close friend of brezhnev's but thent. and jimmy carter and the left, he had no part in that. much like putin had no partner now since what happened in 2020. and finally when reagan was elected, they were going to approach detente, they wrote letters back and forth but then reagan died and brezhnev died. and there are many similarities between the way the left-wing in america -- >> i love the point you're making an eye 100% agree with you, i won't show the audience a bit more from the movie because i think it is important and special for them to watch, let's take a look at one of your scenes. >> he will win. >> i have been warning you about this man for many years. >> secretary, i have prepared dozens of these documents. yes, i appreciate that. but go prepare another. >> robert, final thoughts, 15 seconds before we have to go. >> yes, again, he understood, he never underestimated ronald reagan, he wanted to work with detente. reagan is a film and people reach out to me, i see them in the supermarket or whatever. the temp

he had that he could talk to andropov or khrushchev for brezhnev pretty much any time he wanted until he fell out of favor. of course. and there again, he he got the message, you know, you're a physicist. you design the weapons. well, we'll worry about the fallout, the the human implications of aboveground testing. so it was a very process of realizing that the government was in the hands of people who did not really share his concerns, not about the use of atomic weapons, even, but even about their their testing. and when he saw intellectual was being arrested, he started getting engaged on their behalf as fascinating. then last question for me. we've been talking about some really, really noble and good people and brave people, but we haven't really talked about the really, really bad people as much. so i want to make we give vladimir putin and his ilk a little bit of air here, specifically the fifth directorate of the kgb and the book in its arc culminates in a very dense section. i mean, this in a best sense about the ways the fifth directorate under under popov as kgb director, s

their have been pipelines sabotaged that brezhnev is in prison for that. you are not seeing large-scale attacks like the els of the late 1990s through the early 2000's. i'm not saying you should but that element is not out there. you are seeing sabotaged. and that leads to do you think absence of that large-scale arson or sabotage is because the aggression was mostly successful that's a good question and basically you're asking did the repression in the els and people continuing on with that type of activity. for certain the crackdown was very severe. laws were enhanced against activiste not only in the els. dan berman in general and certain places. it still considered terrorism today to hold the sign at certain facilities. that all came as a result of the green scare so the level of repression they came down the largely ended with the sentencing of 18 plus members of the liberation front -- the earth liberation front in the west and midwest still in the sale in long island that definitely played a major role in the demise of the movement. there was a move

to this is a movie the day after that came out in the 1980s when the world was afraid that leonid brezhnev and ronald reagan were going to blow the world. and when was the last time were in an actual nuclear buildup an actual arms race like we are once again? did you think about the day after when you decided when you were conceiving this this approach? most certainly when saw the day after when i was a high school student and i remember being terrified by it, you know, and i've since a couple interesting things which are actually quite hopeful, right. so of them is that abc was initially told, you know, that they or if there was a real discussion that they shouldn't it was too terrifying. right. and so yet they went ahead, aired it. a hundred million americans watched it, including me, including a very important american president, ronald reagan. yes. right. and that his response to that miniseries becomes, famously what is known as the reagan reversal or with the inside baseball crowd in washington, d.c., the reagan reversal, because he wrote reagan wrote in his presidential diary that h

to this is a movie the day after that came out in the 1980s when the world was afraid that leonid brezhnev and ronald reagan were going to blow the world. and when was the last time were in an actual nuclear buildup an actual arms race like we are once again? did you think about the day after when you decided when you were conceiving this this approach? most certainly when saw the day after when i was a high school student and i remember being terrified by it, you know, and i've since a couple interesting things which are actually quite hopeful, right. so of them is that abc was initially told, you know, that they or if there was a real discussion that they shouldn't it was too terrifying. right. and so yet they went ahead, aired it. a hundred million americans watched it, including me, including a very important american president, ronald reagan. yes. right. and that his response to that miniseries becomes, famously what is known as the reagan reversal or with the inside baseball crowd in washington, d.c., the reagan reversal, because he wrote reagan wrote in his presidential diary that h

an actor, robert davi, who played soviet premier leonid brezhnev in the movie, says the film shows how reagan was demonized just like trump. robert davi himself is here right now. robert. so you say that both trump and reagan were similar in the way they were demonized. what do you mean by that? well, not many people will remember, but i was around when reagan was president and prior to that, when he was president of the screen actors guild at the tail end of that and governor of california and the hollywood community, much like today, there was a bit of a differences because it was more balanced back then. you had more conservative, powerfully out front conservatives, but the left continued to demonize reagan. they called him dumb, stupid. the star wars defense that he had that idea, that which was like the iron dome of israel today, they every step that reagan did, they called him out of touch. and reagan was red white and blue like donald trump. and i see very similar things that happened. i wrote an article on breitbart the day donald trump announced that he was like ronald reagan,