Joan Baez - Happy Birthday Leonid Brezhnev (Live)

[udor1962]

& the world today ? 1968 - 1989 & now ? czeslav niemen was for me a idol & for you polish fighter ? - sorry ... for me was czeslav niemen a european fighter & i am a german ...

[udor1962]

@udor1962

peace is the first - its a dream - & Lech Walesa ? all east european gettin in capitalism ...???

show me the way with putins schroeders KGBs ...

Peace & Love in destroyed with stalinism ...

good way ...

[udor1962]

Ich bin ein Deutscher & habe das Konzert von Joan Baez in Lublin hier reingestellt - & jetzt hab ich als Deutscher Czeslaw Niemen reingestellt - Ich bin ein Deutscher & Ich liebe die Musik von Czeslaw Niemen ! Danke ! TAKOJE!

[udor1962]

Czeslaw Niemen need we ...

[udor1962]

@udor1962 Bema pamieci zalobny - rapsod - Czeslaw Niemen - aber darf das sein bei Joan Baez ?

[udor1962]

Joan Baez - this is the queen - the forbidden - for people is Joan - need no a president - Happy Birthday Joan ! - You are & was a voice of peace & no for idiots crashes politicians - Happy Birthday Joan - You Are The Folk Voice All Over So Many Countries - TNX !!!

[MrDLOC11]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN!

[67nairb]

0:52-1:36 why are pictures Boris Yeltsin flashing on the screen? He had nothing to do with the Polish Solidarity movement.

[WoodenMosquito]

@67nairb Thanks. Truly.

[67nairb]

@WoodenMosquito For what?

[WoodenMosquito]

@67nairb For making things clear. Well, ah, Yeltsin had only one thing "to do" with Solidarnosc. He did not wanted it to happen ; ) Really, some guys think that polish people equals commies. We may be assholes, but not communists, and everybody who points out some stupid things like you did makes me happy. Cheers

[67nairb]

@WoodenMosquito Your welcome. Yeltsin was opposed to the Solidarity movement in Poland in the early '80s? He was a vrtually unknown man in the Kremlin back then and ceratinly had no power to dictate Soviet foreign policy.

[udor1962]

@67nairb

This is the capitalism world - destroyed human rights - Polish Solidarity is forgetten - but SOLIDARNOSC WAS THE FIRST WAY TO PEACE !!!

sorry i forget me - but I think I forget me FOR PEACE !

[udor1962]

@67nairb

it is a satirity & please understand - Joan Baez Is A fighter For Peace - no jelzin - no polish president & NO for all no a german ...

P&L is Joan Baez - & Joan IS NO a politician voice ! - Do You Understand ???

[67nairb]

@udor1962 What does P&L stand for, peace and liberty?

[67nairb]

So Joan Baez was sang protest songs against dictators on both Right and the Left. Good for her.

[kulbaba]

Thank You for this song! I had an old casette with this concert, but the quality is so bad that is not possibele to listen to it. I was lookign for this song for some time now. So thank you again.

[chrisstola]

Let me guess. Are you Andrzej Leper?

[hectorbolshevik]

I lost a lot of respect for Joan Baez with this song. She stood up for women's rights, gay rights, and against any racial prejudice in the USA. Then Joan ended up supporting Solidarnosc, who's policies targeted specifically women, and tied to the catholic church which hates gays; centered on Polish nationalism and chauvinism and anti-semitism; a "trade union" for union busters like Reagan, Thatcher, and the Pope. Bravo Joan!

[hectorbolshevik]

How did they kill the USSR, stupid? In the USSR and E. Europe one knew they'd still have a job, a roof over their, and health care tomorrow. Reagan was trying too busy trying to bring about a nuclear war (armageddon). You're not from the USSR, you're from Poland. Get your countries straight first, no-brain.

[67nairb]

@hectorbolshevik Reagan was too busy trying to wage nuclear war in the 80s? Why are you talking stupid?

[67nairb]

@hectorbolshevik You really sound stupd.

[johgasCZ]

This is so GREAT!

Such a significant support of Lech Walesa and Polish people in 1985. I am sure if Joan Baez sang this in then-Czechoslovakia, she would be put in the prison...

[67nairb]

@johgasCZ If Baez sang this song in 1985 why would be wishing Brezhnev happy birthday when he's been dead since 1982?

[AndreszGo]

Hello, you are actually right.... . "Happy birthday Leonid Brezniev, what a lovely 75"...., now I recall that I heard this song probably in 1982 , recorded on a secret private concert in Gdansk, just after introduction of the Marshal Law in Poland. For sure Brezniev was alive at the time.

[67nairb]

@AndreszGo You mean barely alive 1982; he died in November of that year just days after the 65th Anniversary of the Revolution. May he R.I.P. (rest in purgatory.)

[67nairb]

@67nairb Leonid Brezhnev was a drunken drug-hazed incompetent who had been in poor health for years before his death in '82. Since his death, there hasn't been much talk in the former Soviet Union, the United States or other countries Communist or non-communist . Not many books have been writen about Brezhnev or films concerning his life. He certainly didn't have the fame or infamy that his predecessors Lenin, Stalin or Khrushchev did.