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Unless this exact same story played out with Brezhnev-Nixon and Brezhnev-Thatcher, *viz.* Brezhnev posed the same question to both leaders, did he say this to Nixon, or to Thatcher?
The Nixon version is also expanded to include the observation that if the 'White powers' (I think this is the term Brezhnev purportedly used in the conversation to denote the Soviets and Americans) were to nuke each other, the Chinese (I think he purportedly used the term 'yellows') would rule the world.
My guess is that Brezhnev simply misunderstood the British and American pseudo-Right and thought that he could appeal to them by means of a 'racism' that he never believed in, only to find that the British and Americans were far less 'racist' than he estimated.
If I recall correctly, Brezhnev was big on trying to break down the ethnicities in the Soviet Union by relocating people (part of why many Central Asians are now in Russia and plenty of Russians are now in Central Asia, especially Kazakhstan) and preventing endogamous marriages within the Communist Party (part of why so many mixed persons like Shoigu [Tatar-Russian] and Lavrov rule Russia today). Thus, the reality is that he was probably more anti-'racist' than both Nixon and Thatcher.