Not necessarily. Perhaps you don't fully appreciate the principles of Soviet sloganising, which NC is very obviously applying here. Under these principles things that not merely don't exist
but are completely impossible may be entreated to live long.
Here are a few of the slogans that were approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the 60th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, and published in
Pravda.
1. Long live the glorious 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution!
2. Let live for centuries the name and work of Vladimir Ilych Lenin--the leader of the October Revolution, the creator and leader of the Communist Party and the first-in-the-world socialist government!
3. Let live forever in the people's memory the unparalleled achievement of the Leninist guard of October, the glorious Bolsheviks-Leninists, all those who fight for the victory of socialism!
4. Honor and praise to the historic Soviet people--the builders of communism, steadfast warriors for peace in the whole world!
5. Long live the indissoluble union of the Communist Party and the Soviet people--the source of further flourishing of socialist democracy, the guarantee of the complete triumph of communism!
6. Long live the fraternal friendship and the unshakable unity of the peoples of the USSR--a great achievement of October and the Leninist nationality policy of the CPSU!
7. Long live the Soviet Constitution, the basic law of the first- in-the-world people's socialist government!
8. Citizens of the Soviet Union--strictly adhere to the Constitution of the USSR, the Basic Law of our life.
9. Long live the Soviets of people's deputies, the political basis of the USSR! Increase the participation of workers, peasants, and the intelligentsia in the management of government!
10. Long live socialist democracy, guaranteeing genuine people's power and social justice!