brezhnev like cars. and so brezhnev relish this. as he told nixon, get into the passenger seat. brezhnev got behind the wheel, i'm sure the surface was having a great time with this. and dixon was used to driving these narrow privy roads in camp david in a coal golf got. so nixon is over here in the passenger side, brezhnev is behind the wheel, they go down these curry, down the hill, around the curve. brezhnev it's 50 miles an hour in the lincoln continental. and you can see richard nixon, as the story goes, sitting over there in very examining, oh, slow down, slow down, slow down! [laughter] and brezhnev slams on the brakes, around the curve, the come to a white-knuckle stop with richard nixon, and he says, very fine automobile. [inaudible] really well. so he liked that. and so i think the custom of, or the short lived tradition off american presidents giving automobiles ended with that at camp david. but that's a wonderful story of president brezhnev and the lincoln continental. >> josh, tell us about your first visit there. president bush didn't just use this for diplomatic

they came years after under leonid brezhnev, during after under leonid brezhnev, during a period of stagnation in the soviet union and the idea was to instill a sense of patriotism and pride, give domestic feelings a boost at the time of stagnation and vladimir putin has built further on this idea and has taken it to another level in terms of the pointlessness of this event and the emphasis on sacrifice so these feelings of patriotism —— pompous mass. we saw that come through even in this parade and what that means in terms of history is that means in terms of history is that historically the russian people had been through enormous suffering, one that is hard for the west to understand they had endured and i think this is what he was trying to get out through his message. thank ou for get out through his message. thank you for talking _ get out through his message. thank you for talking to _ get out through his message. thank you for talking to us, _ get out through his message. thank you for talking to us, anna - you for talking to us, anna borshchevskaya, who is from the washington inst

looking up and trying to figure out which members of the bureau have been moved around, who's closer to brezhnev, who was pushed aside? and in this case why you have somebody so respected in russia was allowed to go on television and actually mock president putin's saber-rattling over finland becoming a member of nato. mocked it. i wrote it down. we have to face it, we russians have to face it, we are isolated in the world. we are alone in this war against ukraine. that's a fascinating admission. again, one that's very damning to vladimir putin. and, finally, he said that ukraine -- and i thought this was so -- so telling. he said ukraine had better morale than the russian soldiers in part because they were defending their homeland. what's at the center of vladimir putin's belief system about ukraine? that it's not a real country, that there's not a homeland. that they're part of greater russia. so why would they be defending their homeland if the official line from russian tv is they don't even have their own country? so much to sort through here. nothing happens by accident on russian televisi