 In 1969, while lecturing in Norway, he was asked to lift 200 kg, which he easily did despite a year-long break in training.At the peak of his popularity Vlasov was frequently included to international delegations visiting foreign leaders, such as Fidel Castro and Charles de Gaulle.He was a favorite of Nikita Khrushchev; Leonid Brezhnev offered him a position of a personal adviser on China, and Yuri Andropov was supervising his book "The Vladimirov diaries