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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by qikInNdOutReply on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:02AM (#32659246)
It was a gerontocracy, with old dryed husks dying on the throne pre gorbachev. It was also mostly resource exporting back then, econimically dependent on the west. The oil prices during the gulf war killed them.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by vintermann on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @08:28AM (#32661220)
We call it a gerontocracy, but all those guys were considerably younger than the current and previous US presidents, at 79 and 76 respectively.
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by CRConrad on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:18PM (#32667804)
But with the Soviet healthcare regime of the time (mainly, I'd guess, smoking like fucking chimneys), their effective age was probably at least that of Drumpf and Biden.

To take a President more contemporary to Andropov and Gorbachev: Jimmy Carter is still around, at 97.

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