Russian question: Who would be the first Soviet leader born after WW2?

Thande

Donor
...if the Soviet Union had survived, you understand.

Mikhail Gorbachev was famously the first and only Soviet leader born after the October Revolution in 1917. The USSR ended up being a bit of a gerontocracy so the first leader born after WW2 probably wouldn't be a for a while: after all, even France only got its first post-WW2 president in 2007. But what names spring to mind for who might have been such a figure, whether they be contemporary Russian politicians or whomever?
 

Thande

Donor
My first instinct was to check the last Politburo, the one in the 1990s, and then the one of the 1980s and the youngest of members was born in 1940, so I guess that by the late 1990s or early 2000s you might see a Politburo member born in the second half of the 1940s, unless someone tries to reform the place before that by getting some new blood.

Joke Answer: Putin.

I was thinking along those lines, but as you say even the last Politburo didn't have anyone born after 1941 (which I would guess is what the Soviets would consider to be the threshold for the start of WW2 from their perspective). What I was really thinking is would this hypothetical leader be someone who's in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation today in OTL, or would it be someone who's gone over to Putin's United Russia - i.e. ideology vs ambition?
 
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