• cawsby [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The American ruling class is now older than Kruschev's - add h's - gerontocratic politburo.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      the trick to spelling Khrushchev is to just keep adding H's until you can't anymore

    • Gosplan14 [any]
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      3 years ago

      26th Politbureau of the CPSU, 1981-1986 (Brezhnev, Andropov, Early Gorbachev) Members Ages in 1981:

      Heydar Aliyev (Azeri Ultranationalist) - 53 Years Old

      Pyotr Demichev (Anti-Reformist) - 64 Years old

      Tikhon Kiselyov (Unknown, but liked trains) - 64 Years old

      Vasili Kuznetsov (Unknown, diplomat) - 80 Years Old

      Boris Ponomarev (Anti-Reformist, Khrushcevite) - 76 Years Old

      Sharof Rashidov (Kleptocrat) - 64 Years Old

      Mikhail Solomentsev (Russian Chauvinist, Gorbachevite) - 69 Years Old

      Eduard Shevardnadze (Social Democrat, Gorbachevite) - 53 Years Old

      Vladimir Dolgikh (Technocrat) - 57 Years Old

      Vitaly Vorotnikov (Technocrat) - 55 Years Old

      Viktor Chebrikov (Anti-Reformist, KGB) - 58 Years Old

      Sergey Solokov (Unknown, Military) - 70 Years Old

      Nikolai Talyzin (Reluctant Gorbachevite) - 52 Years Old

      Boris Yeltsin (Liberal) - 50 Years Old

      Yuri Andropov (Reformist, KGB) - 67 Years Old

      Leonid Brezhnev (Bureaucrat) - 75 Years Old

      Mikhail Gorbachev (Social Democrat) - 50 Years Old

      Viktor Grishin (Careerist) - 67 Years Old

      Andrei Gromyko (Anti-Reformist, Diplomat) - 72 Years Old

      Andrei Kirilenko (Reformist) - 75 Years Old

      Dinmukhamed Kunaev (Anti-Reformist, known for competence) - 69 Years Old

      Arvīds Pelše (Anti-reformist, met Lenin pre revolution) - 82 Years Old

      Grigory Romanov (Anti-reformist) - 58 Years Old

      Mikhail Suslov (Bureaucrat, Brezhnevite) - 79 Years Old

      Nikolai Tikhonov (Bureaucrat, Brezhnevite) - 76 Years Old

      Dimitry Ustinov (Soviet Nationalist, Militarist) - 73 Years Old

      Konstantin Chernenko (Anti-reformist) - 70 Years Old

      Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (Russian Chauvinist, Anti-reformist) - 63 Years Old

      Yegor Ligachev (Reformist, Anti-Gorbachevite) - 59 Years Old

      Nikolai Ryzhkov (Reformist, Anti-Gorbachevite) - 52 Years Old

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Lotsa 50 year old kids with radical ideas in that government.