And there was a period for awhile when those Soviet leaders were dropping like flies. Might have been the elite health care system their state eventually produced. That is what will rule the day in the long run. Our current governing state is living within a corrupt fantasy world of their own creation that will continue every day to separate from physical reality. Those of us who retain our freedom will continue living within a reality being governed by truths we deem to be self evident. For the Tyrants, their Science is already failing them (Global Warming), their Economic Administration is producing record deficits and hardly anyone believes a word they state. They have lost trust, economic production and their science is failing them. In short, they have no future.
Might also have had something to do with the fact that they were a gerontocracy. Most of them were born into Orthodox faith when Russia was still using the Julian Calendar.