He's close:
Gorbachev
Khrushchev
Putin
Lenin
Brezhnev
Andropov
Stalin
srsly?
Khrushchev started quite a bit of liberalization...
Yeah, liberalization from Stalinism. Putin's Russia is still wayyyyy less authoritarian than Krushchev's
Its a weird list. Lenin was extremely authoritarian. Andropov was less authoritarian than his predessors and some even see him as a potential reformer, that were just in power for too short a periode to make a difference, are you confusing him with Chernenko?
Gorbachev
Putin
Andropov
Khrushchev
Chernenko
Brezhnev
Lenin
Stalin
