BREAKING on MSNBC: Boris Yeltsin dead

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[dawgmeat9]

Boris Yeltsin is dead, Russian news agencies say, quoting Kremlin.

[Badeye]

I always wonder what a communist says to St Peter....(chuckle)

[Centurion2000]

I always wonder what a communist says to St Peter....(chuckle)

St Peter: Welcome to the Party

[lesser_satan]

IIRC, he also shelled the Parliament building, with hard-line commies inside.

[Julliardsux]

I hope Cheney doesn’t wear that northface coat to his funeral.

[Badeye]

No doubt, but what does a communist say when confronted by the fact they were wrong all along?

[theDentist]

Are they sure he hasn’t just passed out?

[Lazamataz]

Good man. Courageous. America could use a Yeltsin. RIP, droog.

[RockinRight]

I thought the same thing.

[bert]

.....He is now!.......

More correctly “cooling”

The good Doctor Mallard aka Ducky on NCIS has taught that the liver temperature remains warm for a long time after death.

[Lazamataz]

No doubt, but what does a communist say when confronted by the fact they were wrong all along?

Usually,

Bang.

[Dog Gone]

Natasha will be devastated.

[RDTF]

Is he radioactive?

[dfwgator]

No doubt, but what does a communist say when confronted by the fact they were wrong all along?

Yeltsin confronted that fact many years ago.

[CondorFlight]

Yeltsin was touring the US and stopped to see a supermarket in a small town. He was amazed at the quantity and diversity of goods. He asked the manager how many different items they carried, and the manager replied, “about 20,000”.

Seeing that kind of distribution system and the quantity of goods and foods available even in a small town, made him gnash his teeth at the Party apparatchniks who had been ruling Russia for so long, and keeping Russia from having similar abundance. He cursed “them”, and I think he lost his love for communism on that day.

[Heatseeker]

It's easy to joke about him. But while Yeltsin may have been a sloppy drunk sometimes, his courage launched a long-overdue counterrevolution that transformed the world.

Heaven welcomes you Boris Nikolayevich.

[VeniVidiVici]

He cursed “them”, and I think he lost his love for communism on that day.

We had an exchange student in 1998 from Kyrgistan. He said the same thing about the markets.

I went shopping in a Russian store in Munich once. They had tins of meat and fish for sale. Brand? The meat was labled "Meat" and the fish was labled "Fish". What kind and what type was not known.

Soviets also purloined the Marlboro packaging for smokes but can't remember what they called them.

Best thing about shopping in East Berlin? Stoly was about $.50 a liter!

[Bishop_Malachi]

RIP

[Valin]

I’ll always remember him standing on that tank and telling the communists that it was time to go.

[Redleg Duke]

He had a pair of brass ones when the world and Russia needed them. Facing down the tanks.

[IamConservative]

Was he a cold warrior?

As I recall, he stood up on a tank an gave a speech that in effect ended the Soviet Union. Prior to that he was I believe Mayor of Moscow.

Perhaps in my mind more that reality. I associate the end of the Soviet Union with Yeltsen. I was in my teens, but was a big Reagan fan.