Yevgeniy Chazov Quote

He wasn't a man of erudition, yet very quickly grasped the significance of this or that problem for the state at large and for his own popularity rating. As one far removed from the sciences, he had tremendous respect for the opinions of scientists.


On Leonid Brezhnev, as quoted in "Period of Stability" by Tatyana Shvetsova in Voice of Russia (20 July 2006)


He wasn't a man of erudition, yet very quickly grasped the significance of this or that problem for the state at large and for his own popularity...

He wasn't a man of erudition, yet very quickly grasped the significance of this or that problem for the state at large and for his own popularity...

He wasn't a man of erudition, yet very quickly grasped the significance of this or that problem for the state at large and for his own popularity...

He wasn't a man of erudition, yet very quickly grasped the significance of this or that problem for the state at large and for his own popularity...