On the day of Brezhnev's death, I always write that if a deceased leader of a country in his casket looks better than those of his fellow officials who carry that casket, she is doomed.
Brezhnev, of course, was not evil and very bloodthirsty, that's true. And he probably even wanted to leave. And maybe he understood how the jokes about "crowd tits" and "armed hot dogs" can end. But in the Soviet system, in principle, you could leave only the legs first, and that's what they did.
He became a hostage of this terrible Soviet system, but his contribution to its collapse was very significant. Without any CIA and other institutions of the Mossad.