Boris Yeltsin Is Dead But Bjork’s Music Still Tastes Rancid
By Beth in Uncategorized, News, USSR, World News on April 23 2007
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin whose “free market” ways ushered in a new era in Russian history (including a new approach to financial corruption at the hands of the Oligarchs) died either yesterday or today at the age of 76. Yeltsin actively rallied against Gorbachev’s slow Soviet reform from Communism and gained a foothold in the former USSR under his anti-Communism reactionary platform. He renounced his Communist membership in the early 90s.
Unfortunately in the end, it looked like Yeltsin’s strong penchant for drinking got the better of him. His political career went out with a whimper with many Russians still blaming him for Russia’s poor economic state. Perhaps the slower and steadier (approach to Capitalism) might have won the race, after all, but where politics was concerned, gluttony was the opiate of this particular leader.
