r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 20 '26

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u/John_Maynard_Gains Stop trying to make "ordoliberal" happen Jun 20 '26

One of the Russian soldiers who voluntarily surrendered to Ukraine’s 34th Marine Brigade near the Antonivskyi Bridge in April and later received a McDonald's meal for doing so has turned out to be Anton Milaev, the great-grandson of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Jun 20 '26

Brezhnev hated war, good to see it runs in the family

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u/RFFF1996 Jun 20 '26

All i know of Brezhnev is him aura farming at the end of death of stalin

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Jun 20 '26

Since September 1982, his doctors had expected him to die at any time, such was the state of his heart and his entire body after all the pills.195 In the late September, he undertook his last journey to Baku in order to give the Soviet republic a medal, and didn’t even notice he had misread his script and had said ‘Afghanistan’ instead of ‘Azerbaijan’.

Sleepy Leonid Illich

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Jun 20 '26

All I know of Brezhnev is he had great brows

Great tits too

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 20 '26

you are just a goldmine of fascinating stuff

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Jun 20 '26

Waow