How mentally competent was Leonid Brezhnev during his final years in office?

by JournalofFailure

Legend has it that in his final years, the Soviet leader was prone to doing things like repeating pages of his televised speeches. Is there any truth to this?

DeSoulis

Oh yes, you can actually watch a video of one of his speeches in his later years and see how....well senile he seem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGXPNPvPWU