Looking this up, I stumbled on an interesting observation: > Bald–hairy (Russian: лысый–волосатый) is a common joke in Russian political discourse, referring t

Looking this up, I stumbled on an interesting observation: > Bald–hairy (Russian: лысый–волосатый) is a common joke in Russian political discourse, referring to the empirical rule of the state leaders' succession defined as a change of a bald/balding leader to a hairy one and vice versa. This consistent pattern can be traced back until as early as 1825 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald%E2%80%93hairy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald%E2%80%93hairy