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The Bald-Hairy Rule of Russian Leadership
October 15, 2012
While we are on the topic of hair, there is a fascinating unbroken sequence that has been afflicting Russian leadership for almost 200 years. It turns out that Russian Rulers (we hesitate to call them elected leaders) run in a alternating sequence of bald and hairy where every bald (male) leader is followed by a hairy (male) leader and vice versa. Perhaps with the passing of each bald leader there is a longing for more hairiness, which once sated, leaders to wishes for different leadership and a tendency to take baldness as an indicator of a shiny new future.
For the full story see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald–hairy
But for the proof of the bald-hair assertion you only have to check the pictures below.
| Bald leaders | Portrait | Hairy leaders | Portrait |
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Nicholas I (1825–1855) |
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Alexander II (1855–1881) |
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| Alexander III (1881–1894) |
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Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
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| Georgy Lvov (1917) |
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Alexander Kerensky (1917) |
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| Vladimir Lenin (1917–1924) |
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Joseph Stalin (1924–1953) |
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| Nikita Khrushchev (1953–1964) |
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Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982) |
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| Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) |
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Konstantin Chernenko (1984–1985) |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev (1985–1991) |
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Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) |
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| Vladimir Putin (2000–2008) |
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Dmitry Medvedev (2008–2012) |
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| Vladimir Putin (2012–present) |
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