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UKRAINIAN communists saluted the memory of Leonid Brezhnev today on the 112th anniversary of the Soviet leader’s birth.
“Twenty-seven years after the criminal collapse of the USSR, ordinary people can understand and appreciate what the Brezhnev years were in the history of our common Soviet homeland,” Vlad Mushenko wrote in a tribute posted on the party’s website.
An era where everyone had “three weeks paid holiday, free summer camps, free higher education, free nurseries, free comprehensive healthcare, guaranteed work, a wide network of cultural institutions and the ability to move freely throughout the country thanks to reasonable rail and air ticket prices” was “the old norm” but seemed to modern Ukrainians like “a wondrous dream,” he said.
He praised Brezhnev, who led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964-82, for presiding over rising living standards and pursuing an active foreign policy focused on supporting liberation movements abroad such as the anti-apartheid struggle.
