'Don't look now, but I'm afraid somebody is following us'
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Cartoon shows Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin walking along a street in Moscow wearing rumpled suits and ties and generally showing their age. A dapper young man without a tie, labeled "Next Generation of Soviet Leaders," strides along behind them. By 1977, the Soviet government was made up of old hard-line Communists who had been raised under the tutelage of Stalin. Valtman is prescient in his speculation that a new breed, who had never known the ideological fervor of the Russian Revolution, would lead the Soviet Union in a more modern direction.
Published in Valtman : the editorial cartoons of Edmund S. Valtman, 1961-1991. Baltimore, Md. : Esto, 1991, p. 21.
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