Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev became Hero of the Soviet Union for the fourth time. Photo by Peter Marlow, Moscow, USSR, 1981pic.twitter.com/kViFa2FIYp
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Was he already on the list of Kremlin watchers back then?
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Gorby and Konstantin Chernenko too.
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I remember the entire country was making jokes about the senile leader getting another toy. People were laughing at the fact that all leaders were very old and probably demented. Brezhnev was 76 when he died in 1982. His successor Chernenko, also in the picture, died at 74
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