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"In 1989, a Soveit philosopher told me a bit of folk wisdom. According to an anecdote then making the rounds n Moscow, he said, the Soviet state oscillates between bald leaders and hairy ones–between reformers and conservative tyrants. He ticked off the pairs: Lenin, the bald revolutionary, was followed by Stalin, the tyrant with thick, bristling brush-cut hair and menacing mustache. Nikita Khrushchev, the peasant reformer, who was bald as a potato, gave way to Brezhnev, the conservative, whose bushy eyebrows and headful of hair were parodied by cartoonists in the East and West. Yuri Andropov, a wispy-haired puritan bent on modernism and efficiency, was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, a defender of the Old Guard, who even in senility had an abundant head of white hair. So it was only natural that Gorbachev, whose birthmark gleams from a naked pate, should usher in a new era of radical reform. And of course, the philospher said, smiling, nervous liberals were already beginning to speculate about what hairy hard-liner would succeed Gorbachv."