DBWI: Former Soviet Premier Rosenbaum has died.

The former Premier of the Soviet Union has died.

Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, born 1905, was one of the most beloved world leaders of our time.

Since taking power in 1947 on the crest of a massive wave of popularity, she instituited sweeping reforms that stretched to every corner of Soviet life.

Besides from the reformed economy and robust welfare state left behind to her sucessor, she also drastically reduced the Red Army's size and expendiature, deeming it "A highly impressive waste of resources that could otherwise have been put to some useful purpose." and defusing a potentially apocalyptic diplomatic situation that could have divided the world in half.

Alongside her responsibilities as head of state, she was also a formidable author and academic who wrote several books, both of fiction and Marxist theory.

Despite widespread approval as a national leader, controversy over the treatment of political rivals during the power struggle after her predecessor's death still pervades at home and abroad.

Several world leaders are rumoured to be present at her funeral, including American, French and Japanese Presidents alongside the British, German and Chinese Prime ministers.
 
Oh my god, I nearly cried upon reading this. Thanks to her, the Soviet Union is the great nation it is nowadays, and together with America it's helped make the world a better place. She'll be up there with Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill.
 
Well damn. Even Titans must fall eventually I guess. And she was a Titan, one would have to have been to fix the mess that Stalin had left behind after his heart attack.
 

Hnau

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Ah, Alisa Rosenbaum. Probably the most important woman of the entire 20th century. Then again, I thought she would never die. Its not as if we haven't been predicting her death since the 1980s.

Its funny, we often think that without her the Soviet Union would have annihilated the world and created a major dystopia (For All Time, anybody?) and yet much of her fiction writing had an apocalyptic mood to it. I guess that's what kept her great, the fear that someone else would screw up the world.

Any else here read The Strike? Really long book, but probably the most marketable of her works.
 
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