Given that about two dozen of the current candidates for President are in their late 70's, and we have a year and a half before the election, actuarial prudence would dictate we let the Grim Reaper thin the field a little before arguing over who is most electable.
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I ask that former Soviet tweeters please post their favorite Brezhnev joke to this thread
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My favorite: Moscow, 1980. The opening ceremony of the olympic games. The stadium is packed. Brezhnev steps to the podium, looks down at the text of his speech, and cries out: O! O! O! O! O! A horrified aide rushes up to him. "Leonid Ilyich! Those are the Olympic rings!"
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did all 3 not die before becoming General Secretary ? Does this not establish precedent for presidential candidates ?
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Why Andropov did not make any foreign visits and Brezhnev visited a lot of countries? Because Andropov’s life support was powered fro the mains and Brezhnev’s from batteries.
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Presumably a lot of the difference was alcohol and cigarettes.
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We do have better nutrition and healthcare.
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In the sense that our nutrition is not based on vodka...
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Stalin was 74 and Khrushchev 77 when they died. Of course, Khrushchev was forced out at 70 (probably for drunkenness) and was the only Soviet premier to enjoy a peaceful retirement.
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The mortality rate of Russians even when I was a kid but I remember when I was a kid how much earlier people were dying here but not as early as Russia
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« Can the Soviet Union survives to 1984? » got Siniavsky to the Gulag.
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