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Viktor Chernomyrdin says one day that he is willing to cooperate with his successor as prime minister, the free marketeer Sergei Kirienko, but huffs the next about dealing with his reform-minded predecessor, Yegor Gaidar.

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Compassion is a worthy successor.

Goering was Hitler's second in command in World War II, his designated successor.

They didn't want to call him "king," in case that gave him ideas, or his successor ideas.

In 64 years of running the largest country in the world, the range of the Party's policies has been wider than any other country in recent memory, from radical land collectivization to the Great Leap Forward, then privatization of farmland, then the Cultural Revolution, then Deng Xiaoping's market reform, then successor Jiang Zemin took the giant political step of opening up Party membership to private businesspeople, something unimaginable during Mao's rule.

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