With Brezhnev in charge, rocking the boat simply meant you drowned.

在勃列日涅夫的领导下，摇船就意味着你会被淹死。

With Brezhnev in charge, the Soviet system had returned to its cruelest ways.

勃列日涅夫掌权后，苏联的体制又回到了最残酷的状态。

We trace the era of Leonid Illych Brezhnev a man whose bluff, pleasant personality, disguised a tiny alcohol sodden brain a perfect non-entity, he did what he could to let the Soviet Union slip down in to a mess of apathetic despair.

回想一下勃列日涅夫统治时期他粗豪坦率，亲切和蔼的个性，他那狭隘愚笨的头脑，他是一个彻底的无足轻重的人，他所做的一切，都让苏联滑入了一团糟和绝望中。