Classify Former Soviet Leaders

[Northern Paladin]

Classify Soviet Leaders from Lenin-Gorbachev. It appears to me some of them defintely have a mongoloid strain. Your thoughts please.

[Tifilis]

Classify Soviet Leaders from Lenin-Gorbachev. It appears to me some of them defintely have a mongoloid strain. Your thoughts please.

Lenin: Mongoloid-Europeid mix. Was of Kirgiz, Ukrainian and Jewish family.
Stalin: Mtbe Dianrid-Taurid, Georgian.
Khrustjev: Hm.. Baltic?
Brezjnev: Ukrainian with Turkic feautres.
Andropov: ? Nordic strain?
Chernenko: Some sort of Uralic?
Gorbatchev: Alpinid?

So.. I'm probobly wrong..

[Northern Paladin]

Interesting picture in your picture Tifilis. I've never seen Stalin depicted like that. Andropov looks like Kissenger if you ask me. Jewish?

[Tifilis]

Oh! I forgot to check Andropovs picture. No, he hasn't got any Nordic in him, but it looked like it in his younger pics. Jewish? No, I don't think so.

[Glenlivet]

I would appreciate it if you saved the pictures in .jpg format. The size would be much smaller.

[Telperion]

Lenin: Mongoloid-Europeid mix. Was of Kirgiz, Ukrainian and Jewish family.

The book 'Lenin: A New Biography' by D. Volkogonov (Free Press, NY, 1994) says that, according to files in the KGB archives, Lenin was a mix of Russian, Tatar, Volga German, Swedish and Jewish - for what that information is worth.

Andropov apparently had some Finno-Karelian ancestry, although he was basically Russian.

[Telperion]

Andropov looks like Kissenger if you ask me. Jewish?

A magazine article from 1982/3 (in The Atlantic Monthly, I think) claimed that Andropov was partly-Jewish, and also that he spoke fluent English, preferred Whisky to Vodka, and listened to American Jazz music records. However, no evidence was ever produced to substantiate any of these claims.