Zeitstrahl

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ImageSize = width:160 height:550 PlotArea = width:50 height:530 left:50 bottom:10

DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:2310 till:2335 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920

1. there is no automatic collision detection,
2. so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar

PlotData=

 bar:Leaders color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S

 from:start till:2310 shift:($dx,15)   text:Vladimir~Ilyich~Lenin
 from:2311  till:2315 shift:($dx,5)    text:Josef Stalin
 from:2320  till:2320 shift:($dx,5)    text:Nikita~Khrushchev
 from:2320  till:2321 shift:($dx,5)    text:Leonid~Brezhnev
 from:2324  till:2325 shift:($dx,-12)  text:Yuri~Andropov
 from:2326  till:2327 shift:($dx,4)    text:Konstantin~Chernenko fontsize:XS
 from:2335  till:end  shift:($dx,10)   text:Mikhail~Gorbachev

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