Presidents and Leaders

1920’s
The last photo taken of Vladimir Lenin alive. He was in a wheelchair after suffering three stokes in the previous two years. By the end he was paralyzed and completely mute. he died in 1924 at the age of 54
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1989
In 1989, Boris Yeltsin (then newly elected to the new Soviet parliament and the Supreme Soviet) visited the Johnson Space Center in Houston (Texas) and made an impromptu visit to a grocery store in the area with his staff.
According to the Houston Chronicle newspaper, Yeltsin “roamed the aisles nodding his head in amazement”, especially excited about frozen pudding pops and free cheese samples.
In his own biography, Yeltsin wrote: “When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people.”
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