From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   >   
   > In the previous article, Louis Epstein   wrote:   
   >> Nikolai Ryzhkov,the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the   
   >> Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Premier of the Soviet Union for   
   >> short) from 1985 to 1991,born September 28th 1929,died February 28th   
   >> 2024 according to various sources...he was the last surviving Soviet   
   >> leader of such prominence.   
   >   
   > Putin knocks off another one!   
      
   Well,he had Ryzhkov serve as a senator for the last 20 years,so I don't   
   think he saw him as a threat...in 1985,when Ryzhkov became Premier,   
   Gorbachev had just become General Secretary and Gromyko President of   
   the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet,while Putin was a minor KGB field   
   officer.   
      
   Un terms of military desperation,I was wondering if the draft for   
   service in Ukraine would ever be extended to men of Ryzhkov's age   
   (he represented an oblast adjacent to Ukraine) but I suppose that   
   by dying he has dodged this.   
      
   -=-=-   
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   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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