BREAKING on MSNBC: Boris Yeltsin dead

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[newzjunkey]

I remember the coup attempt and the takes. I remember when he was a "hostage" too. It's a shame someone so wedding to Cold War thinking like Putin followed President Yeltsin.

RIP Boris.

[pgkdan]

He had his faults but I'll always remember him standing on that tank and making his famous speech. History was made that day...Russia was literally in the balance and Boris Yeltsin swung that balance.

Rest in Peace.

[Cheburashka]

On October 3, 1993 I woke up about 2AM, turned on the television. I saw something, the very memory of which still warms my heart.

Live, I saw Russian tanks shooting at Communists, holed up in the Beliy Dom. Way to go Boris!!! Shooting at Communists is always a good idea.

Can we get the Democrats in Congress to hole up in the Rayburn Building?

But back to Boris: Rest in Peace.

Bog dal, Bog i vzyal.

God gives, and God takes away.

[capydick]

.....what does a communist say when confronted by the fact they were wrong all along?

The leadership of today's RAT party will find out eventually. There's no MSM at the Pearly Gates to cover for them.

[napscoordinator]

Sad news. One of America’s great ally’s. We are losing the Reagan people quickly. Sad that life has to go full circle. Of course that is what was in God’s plan. Thank you for helping the Great Ronald Reagan. You two are probably up in Heaven having a great time.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

So who got him, his liver or the KGB poisoners?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yep, the USSR was a Reagan victory and we’ll be sorry for a long time that Bubba Krinton squandered it so badly. Instead of teaming up with real democratic reformers, Bubba cozied up with the corrupt communists that were in bed with the mafia. So instead of a decent country that we can work with, we have the communist kleptocracy mafia-state of today.

[juliej]

We could always count on Clinton to do the wrong thing.

[keats5]

I remember that tank speech. He was a brave man and a major player in an era of gutsy players that included Regan, Thatcher, Walensa and (yes) Gorbachev.

I doubt Putin liked him much. Despots eradicate such men.

[TampaDude]

Yup...August of 1991...I remember him standing on the tank giving that speech after some “hardliners” arrested Gorbachev and held him hostage for three days. I heard that the hardliners had sent tanks and troops to arrest Yeltsin, but when they arrived on scene, they defected to Yeltsin’s side and took up positions around the Russian parliament building to protect it. The whole world held its breath for those three days. I remember it like it was yesterday. Those were amazing times.

RIP, Boris...you did good...

[TNCMAXQ]

Let me guess. Clinton will certainly be at any services they have for Yeltsin. And it will all be about him. I wonder how many times he will say “I” and refer to himself. Making himself the center of attention as always.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

I like that. Is that trade-marked?

[timer]

RasPutin, a good moniker. Yeltsin gave him just one order when he installed him as president(remember the ceremony well) : save russia. Instead RasPutin knee-jerked to dictatorship and all its well known failings. The more money you pour into GUNS = the less money that goes into the BUTTER of civilian economic development; an issue the iranians are wrestling with right now.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

“Sadly, I thought he was already gone.”

Yeah, sort of like that headline “BigFoot Escapes!”

[fieldmarshaldj]

Courageous leader. May he rest in peace.

[Zeroisanumber]

For all of the disappointments that came later in his career, Boris Yeltsin acted with courage and conviction during the coup attempt that signaled the collapse of the Soviet Union.

President Yeltsin was a good man once, and we should try to remember him at his best.

[goldstategop]

He will be remembered as Russia's first freely elected President. And Yeltsin did help to bring an end to the Socviet Union in 1991.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[SamAdams76]

Boris was my favorite Russian president with my second favorite being Brezhnev. While Brezhnev was a commie through and through, he seemed like a fun guy to go drinking with and hear some Lenin and Marx jokes. As for Boris, he seemed like a total party animal. Kind of how John Belushi would have turned out to be like if he didn’t die so soon.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[SuziQ]

I will never forget him climbing up on to that tank in Moscow when the army was confronting the government. It was amazing how fast the Soviet Union fell, once that happened.