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From Soviet TV’s announcement of Brezhnev’s death (Source)

You young folk won’t know this, but back in the 1980s, during the last spasms of the Soviet Union, the USSR had four leaders in five years: Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and then, at last, Gorbachev. The first three, all old and sick, were said to have colds … until state television abruptly beg…