00:00 -
Nikolai Podgorny [The Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR]: It is with great satisfaction that I present you with another commemorative award. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR, you, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of our Party, the Chairman of the Council of Defense of the USSR, the Marshall of the Soviet Union, for outstanding services in strengthening the defense and improving the armed forces of the country are awarded honorary weapons with a gold image of the State Emblem of the USSR.
Allow me to fulfill this pleasant assignment and to hand it to you with great satisfaction.
Wow! Just look what it is!
[he speaks inaudibly]
01:10 -
Leonid Brezhnev [The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]: Dear comrades and friends. Taking this honorable weapon from Nikolai Podgorny, I would like to say that it was made by the masters of our Ministry of Defense. And therefore, I also relate my warm feelings to you.
02:00 -
Leonid Brezhnev: Comrades, with regard to this weapon, it will never be used in battle. It will serve... Its fate has already been decided... It will be a decoration in one of the rooms of my apartment.
02:28 -
Nikolai Podgorny: It will be a good decoration.
2:33 -
Leonid Brezhnev: Well, that's all.
2:36 -
Nikolai Podgorny: I sincerely congratulate you once again.
2:37 -
Leonid Brezhnev: Thank you!
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