By 1981, the seventy-four-year-old Brezhnev, hobbled by a series of strokes and barely able to function, could be seen drooling on himself on his rare appearances on Soviet television. Rather than removing him, however, the Politburo merely nominated him for still more medals. Lenin-the "incandescent" Lenin, as Churchill called him-would have been appalled.
( Steven F. Hayward )
[ The Age of Reagan: The ]
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