It’s very important to break the old anti-USSR demonization as it’s still applied to Russia. This false propaganda served no one in the past and will continue to poison international relations if not countered.

Brezhnev’s integrity is yet another point that shows Soviet leadership (except Stalin) was not the crazy fanatics we were taught to think.

My favorite personal hero is lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov who made the most difficult decision that can be, ignored the false alarm and prevented a nuclear WWIII at the price of his own career. It’s a pity children don’t learn about him at school.

By the way, I heard there is a historian who thinks that Stalin was murdered to prevent a nuclear war with the US. Apparently his own people thought he was going crazy.