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Political Tensions within the USSR: The “Gerontocracy”

Posted by Russel Tarr on February 21, 2010February 11, 2010

Students investigate the “Rule by Geriatrics” – Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko – and how this lack of flexibility led to the tragedy of the Korean Airliner incident of 1983.

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