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From: azlerner@quads.uchicago.edu (asia z lerner)
Subject: Re: Periodic laws of Russian politics
Message-ID: <1993Sep25.153305.11509@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <281nsf$qe3@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> viznyuk@mps.ohio-state.edu (Dragon Fly) writes:
>azlerner@quads.uchicago.edu (asia z lerner) wrote on Sat, 25 Sep 1993 14:47:27 GMT:
>| 
>| In article <01H3D1JEMACI8WWEN7@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> VIZNYUK@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Serge Viznyuk) writes:
>| > 
>| >Maybe. The law in question needs carefull investigation.
>| >However there is already well-proven law of Russian politics
>| >according to which neither Rutskoj, nor Khazbulatov have
>| >any chances to win against Yeltsin. This law states that
>| >next leader of Russia would have to be bold because
>| >Yeltsin is hairy. Both Rutskoj and Khazbulatov are hairy too,
>| >therefore their accession to the throne would violate the
>| >law.
>| >The chain:
>| > 
>| >... Nicolas II (hairy) - Lenin (bold) - Stalin (hairy) - Khruschev (bold) -
>| > - Brezhnev (hairy) - Andropov (bold) - Chernenko (hairy) - Gorby (bold) -
>| > - Yeltsin (hairy) - ???? (bold) - ...
>| > 
>| >Now who is bold over there ?
>| > 
>| >Serge
>| 
>| 
>| Bald, man, not bold. I mean, could you really call 
>| Andropov "bold"?
>| 
>| Asia
>| 
>| 
>
>
>Sorry for stupid misspelling. Anyway, Andropov was both bald and bold.
>There were persisent rumors in Sovok that he was "terminated" by
>Brezhnev's mafia after he tried to fight corruption.
>


Really? My image of him was as being connected
to a respirator most of the time. Did he really
try to fight corruption? It begins to sound
suspiciously like Gorby was part of a trend,
rather than the iconoslast individualist that
I took him to be.




