The former alcoholic womanizing president of Russia : Boris "the bear" Yeltsin died today due to heart failure ............

Still it must be remembered, that he was a president in a time of turmoil in Russia , Gorbachev had just reformed politics .....corruption and economic crisis had to be dealt with ....not always successful.....Chechnya ........alcohol.............heart operation ..............poor guy .......

Rest in peace old warrior ..... I will still remember you stopping the reactionary forces trying to take the parliament building in Moscow .....delivering a speech while standing on a tank in front of the " white house " of Moscow ....

I heard. sad.

He's been dying for like 15 years. He was a shrewd leader.

I heard. sad.
happens all the time. yawn.

He's been dying for like 15 years. He was a shrewd leader.

says an outsider.

happens all the time. yawn.

you have to be brain dead to say that.

Boris Yeltsin's policies ultimately doomed Russia, but I don't blame the guy for trying. He had the right perception, but the execution of what he wanted totally failed Russia.

He tried to implement democracy before there was a set free market capitalist economic plan in Russia. As we can see, it didn't work at all. It's one reason why I think China, in the long run, will be a democratic country and a strong one at that, because China has implemented it's capitalist economic plan first (democracy will gradually come too, as capitalism breeds individualism, which leads to more democracy). For a democracy to function, you need a stable capitalist economy functioning first.

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Boris, you magnificent son of a bitch !!!
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6007/41313353yeltsinapay7.jpg
Rest in peace...

Boris, farewell.

You have to rate some of his styles, like when he went ot see the Irish PM, but go t so shit faced on the plane he fell asleep and missed the mmeeting.

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Take it ez
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Boris Yeltsin's policies ultimately doomed Russia, but I don't blame the guy for trying. He had the right perception, but the execution of what he wanted totally failed Russia.

He tried to implement democracy before there was a set free market capitalist economic plan in Russia. As we can see, it didn't work at all. It's one reason why I think China, in the long run, will be a democratic country and a strong one at that, because China has implemented it's capitalist economic plan first (democracy will gradually come too, as capitalism breeds individualism, which leads to more democracy). For a democracy to function, you need a stable capitalist economy functioning first.

i have never seen the connection between capitalism and democracy. It seems that the most capitalist countries are least democratic.

The connection is simple: capitalism delivers the best democracy money can buy.

The connection is simple: capitalism delivers the best democracy money can buy.

Maybe, if that wouldn't be a complete lie.

Boris sure did have some cool dance moves!

Maybe, if that wouldn't be a complete lie.
Are you suggesting that money, derived from capitalism, cannot be used to buy politicians, government officials, judges, etc.
[You may notice I put democracy in italics.]

Are you suggesting that money, derived from capitalism, cannot be used to buy politicians, government officials, judges, etc.
[You may notice I put democracy in italics.]

You are just too suave for me. I conceit my democratic defeat.

Buy, buy.;)

He was a drunken, sex addled buffoon that enjoyed about 40 minutes of fame as he kicked the USSR into a 3rd World Russia half it's former size. He destroyed a superpower and died alone a very unpopular man. Rot in hell Boris, you were forgotten long ago.

What's wrong with drinking and having sex?

What's wrong with drinking and having sex?Looking like Yeltsin?! Destroying a great nation?! Unleashing the capitalist mafia in Russia?! Turning a superpower into a big Mexico?! Picture a naked Boris with his babushka, swilling vodka. What's wrong with that?! Oh Dear

Looking like Yeltsin?! Destroying a great nation?! Unleashing the capitalist mafia in Russia?! Turning a superpower into a big Mexico?! Picture a naked Boris with his babushka, swilling vodka. What's wrong with that?! Oh Dear
Hail capitalism!

...sex addled buffoon...
Wot' a coincidence !
We had one of them running America at the time.
Must be he showed up at the funeral to pay his respects to a kindred spirit !
;)

... He destroyed a superpower ...
Destroying a great nation?!
Turning a superpower into a big Mexico?!
LoL !
Face it, the whole "rotten edifice" had one foot in the grave for 2 decades by then.

Picture a naked Boris with his babushka, swilling vodka.
Yeah, Baby !!!
At least he wasn't an animated corpse like Andropov or Chernenko !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzXNXjbZafU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzXNXjbZafU

oh he was such a puppet.

oh he was such a puppet.
nahhh... Bill must have "inhaled" that day.
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