Who was Soviet leader when you were born?

[tjwmason]

Leonid Brezhnev here.

[Book Lover]

1. Brezhnev here too

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_leaders_of_the_soviet_union.htm for a list of them.

[billyskank]

2. Nikolai Podgorny, apparently.

Never heard of him.

On edit: Brezhnev was Communist Party leader.

[Book Lover]

4. Apparently the leadership position was not fixed

from the link in my previous post

The formal structure of power in the Soviet Union consisted of three main branches that gave rise to three top positions.

The first position of importance was that of the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, informally translated as President of the Soviet Union. Theoretically it was the highest position, since the Supreme Soviet was an interim organ of the Congress of Soviets, the latter being the supreme power of people, according to the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

The head of the government was the Premier of the Soviet Union. This was the most important position in Lenin's time.

After Lenin's death the most important position ultimately became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who headed the Politburo.

In practice, the leader of the Communist Party used to occupy another position, which led to confusion in the West as to what is the number one person in the USSR: Lenin, Stalin, Malenkov and Khrushchev preferred the post of the premier, while Brezhnev and the successors preferred that of the president.

[Zuni]

11. Then you were under Brezhnev

that was the head of the Soviet Union in reality. Since the 1920s, when Stalin used his position as head of the Party to dominate the USSR, Chairman of the Communist Party was the most powerful position in all of the USSR

[skooooo]

3. Khruschev!

the old fuzzy loveable stalinst!

[BikeWriter]

5. Joseph Stalin

[Fox Mulder]

6. Leonid Brezhnev

[jeff30997]

7. Vladimir Lenin .

But I really look good for my age.:)

[Mutley]

8. Leonid Brezhnev here, too.

[rug]

9. Uncle Joe

[Zuni]

10. Brezhnev

[dr.zoidberg]

12. I got some loser named Andropov.

Why couldn't I have gotten shoe-banging Khrushchev or everyone's favorite mass-murder Joseph Stalin? I'm so depressed:( .

[kick-ass-bob]

13. I remember when Andropov dropped off.

:P

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

14. That irrepressible Khrushchev!

[Arugula Latte]

15. Was '66 Khuschev?

If so, then that's the guy.

[sasquatch]

16. Brezhnev

[Ptah]

17. Joseph Stalin n/t

[MN ChimpH8R]

18. The old shoe-pounder

Khrushchev. Ve vill berry yoo!