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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was Head of State of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1985. He was later replaced and succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Konstantin Chernenko

The Comrades holding up Chernenko's corpse in the first episode.

Chernenko was featured as he appeared in the media at the time: sick and already with one foot in the grave. In one memorable sketch other Soviet Party members go the refrigerator in the Kremlin to fetch a cold drink. Inside, Chernenko is kept between all the other deep freeze products. After only a year the real Chernenko died. Spitting Image poked fun at this by making a change in the opening titles of their show. Instead of showing archive footage of Chernenko in the Russian parliament, they showed a hand holding a newspaper clipping about Chernenko's death, covering the footage.

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Series 1[]

Episode 1[]

He signs his autograph on multiple documents for Margaret Thatcher, who claims the autograph is for her son.

Later, when he tries to make his first address at General Secretary, he drops dead, but his aides use his body like a puppet to improvise before dragging his corpse off to the freezer. Mysteriously, the aides speaking for him drop dead too.

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Series 1
Episode 001 Debut
Episode 002 Absent
Episode 003 Absent
Episode 004 Absent
Episode 005 Absent
Episode 006 Absent
Episode 007 Absent
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