276 Russian Nesting Dolls - Russian Dolls (Mikhail Gorbachev)

Russian Nesting Dolls - Russian Presidents

 

Displayed in Cosford Cold War exhibition, a set of Presidential Russian Dolls

 

Russian Presidents Nesting Dolls are specific matryoshka dolls which reflect popularity (or not popularity) of Russian politicians at the moment. The differing sizes reflecting the succession either in chronological and sometimes reverse chronologiclal order At present time the most popular in Russia and in the world is Russian political leader Vladimir Putin. This is quite strange that Russian leaders of past like Lenin and Stalin are popular in present time, too.

 

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gordachev was eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism, although he had moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s. Gorbachev's negotiations with the U.S. helped bring an end to the Cold War and reduced the threat of nuclear conflict.

 

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Shot 02.06.2017 Cosford Air Museum, Cosford, Shropshire REF 127-276

 

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