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DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1919 till:1991 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920

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 color:red mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S width:15
 shift:(20,0) # shift text to right side of bar

 # there is no automatic collision detection,
 # so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

 from:start till:1922 shift:(,2)  text:Vladimir~Lenin
 from:1922  till:1953 shift:(,5)  text:Joseph~Stalin
 from:1953  till:1953 shift:(,5)  text:Georgy~Malenkov
 from:1953  till:1964 shift:(,5)  text:Nikita~Khrushchev
 from:1964  till:1982 shift:(,5)  text:Leonid~Brezhnev
 from:1982  till:1984 shift:(,-6) text:Yuri~Andropov                      fontsize:XS
 from:1984  till:1985 shift:(,5)  text:Konstantin~Chernenko fontsize:XS
 from:1985  till:end  shift:(,9)  text:Mikhail~Gorbachev

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