• 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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      edit-2
      3 years ago

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