Politburo as was

Ah, the good old days! When these worthies were in charge, you knew what was what. And if it hadn't been for the bugger top row third from the left, we might still know what is what. I wonder what the others are doing now (other than being dead, like Brezhnev). I suspect that some of them may be in the British Home Office working on CCTV surveillance, phonetapping, arrest without trial, universal fingerprinting and other exciting developments of our era.
I remember after the death of Generalissimo Franco, nostalgic graffiti appeared, always starting with the phrase "Bajo Franco, eramos...." (In Franco's time, we were... [followed by some positive aspect like "safer", "better off", etc]. My favourite, though, was
"Bajo Franco, eramos mas jovenes" (In Franco's time, we were much younger).