Brezhnev walked so Gorby could run.

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Not beneficial, like an ideological version of the Streisand effect. They generally had the opposite intended effect and paved the way for Gorbachev and collapse. imo the leadership of the eastern bloc after Stalin was generally filled with a lot of unserious losers poorly studied in Marxism and lost touch with the people. by not making reforms and then over responding to crises they lost the plot.