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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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