A gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population.
Meeting of the seven representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries in 1987: Gustáv Husák, Todor Zhivkov, Erich Honecker, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Wojciech Jaruzelski, and János Kádár. Their average age then was 69.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the oldest people inaugurated as President of the United States.
Chuck Schumer, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi in 2020.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. To this day, the value of Brezhnev's tenure as General Secretary remains debated by historians.
Official portrait, 1972
Brezhnev's Residence house that he lived in from 1929 to 1936
Brezhnev (right) in the rank of commissar giving a Communist Party membership-card to a soldier (1942)
Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Brezhnev's main patron.
