Posted on 05/30/2016 11:15:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Yeltsin for standing on that tank during the coup attempt, will always be a hero, who saved Russia, despite how he may have been as President.
Probably, his opponents at that time would have turned out less disastrous presidents.
The hardcore Communists who tried to turn back the clock.
Those were not the people Russia needed to be saved from back then. Probably they would have prevented the country disintegration, the total economic, scientific and social collapse and the civil wars.
I admit the Yeltsin was a good Russian president for Russia's adversaries, and/or neighbours, but not for Russia.
No one of them has lost a country (with the head position for themselves).
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It’s an interesting perspective.
There were forces seemingly outside of his control at play in Gorby’s world. The USSR, de facto, was unsustainable as it was constructed at the time.
If he is deemed a failure, what would success have looked like?
As well as elsewhere for any other ruler. Still, the level of control available to a Soviet Secretary General was rather high.
If he is deemed a failure, what would success have looked like?
A Chinese-style transition to the market economy, keeping stiff political control in the process.
So, apropos of nothing, will Biden be going to state funerals? Thanks Berlin_Freeper.
Today too we need to free people from fear of the state, because until we do we cannot have a democratic state.Nope, quite the opposite.
Mikhail Gorbachev is like a John McCain or a Bill Kristol...
In Russia, Gorbachev is about as popular as Hitler.
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