• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    During the tsardom, tsars passed power like kings do.

    Soviet union, the party chose its leader. There was a period in the Soviet times where each succeeding leader was pretty much as old as the outgoing one so they didn’t last very long. It was called the gerontocracy.