> You (Doug) beat me to it with the snopes reference, so I will just add
> my comment that these sort of fabrications (usually a tactic of the
> right) betrays (especially the use of the term "self-righteous") more
> about the insecurities of the people that make them up.
>
> --ravi
The New Soviet Man! http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/23_folder/23_articles/23_centenarians.html
>...Some of the oldest people on the face of the earth live in the Caucasus. According to Soviet authorities, the most famous of all was Shirali Muslimov of Azerbaijan, who died on September 2, 1973, at the unbelievable age of 168.
-- Michael Pugliese