Much as I love Stalin, I wouldn't say most old Bolsheviks died of old age. That and a sadly high number of premature deaths due to sickness killing them that they could have survived if they didn't dedicate every moment to their projects like poor Sverdlov with the influenza. But yeah those excesses sure as hell had nothing to do with the USSR falling.
I was agreeing that the Bolsheviks didn't get a chance to see old age because of their commitment to the revolution. Poverty, starvation, exile, war...it took a toll. Only Malenkov and Molotov got past their 70s
Ooh, yeah its really sad how few lived long. Then again how many would've ended up like Molotov, sitting there watching everything they built destroyed
Much as I love Stalin, I wouldn't say most old Bolsheviks died of old age. That and a sadly high number of premature deaths due to sickness killing them that they could have survived if they didn't dedicate every moment to their projects like poor Sverdlov with the influenza. But yeah those excesses sure as hell had nothing to do with the USSR falling.
Every leader of the SU, save Gorbachev, died when they were younger than Biden is now.
Yeah....not sure what your point is though.
I was agreeing that the Bolsheviks didn't get a chance to see old age because of their commitment to the revolution. Poverty, starvation, exile, war...it took a toll. Only Malenkov and Molotov got past their 70s
Ooh, yeah its really sad how few lived long. Then again how many would've ended up like Molotov, sitting there watching everything they built destroyed