[Bishop_Malachi]

RIP

[Lurking in Kansas]

I didn't realize he was still alive.

[SkyPilot]

Well, he lived a long time for his lifestyle.

The man played a great role in history. He was a serious alcoholic - I don't know if he ever went through recovery or not. I hope he at least tried to become sober.

During his first visit to America years ago, (he had some government position in old Soviet structure) Yeltsin got so drunk that the Washington DC cops had to pull him out of a public fountain. He was standing in the water, drunk out of his mind, and holding a bouquet of flowers.

[burzum]

Sad. His gravest mistake was appointing Putin. His greatest glory was helping to dismantle one of the cruelest regimes on the face of the Earth. Putin may be trying to reassemble the USSR, but what Yeltsin undid in 8 years, it will take Putin and his cronies 30.

[Nextrush]

Yeltsin is gone, but putrid Putin or is that RasPutin remains.

[marshmallow]

A career communist who rose through the party ranks but a man who was honest and decent enough to admit that there was a better way when he saw the evidence with his own eyes. His own administration was chaotic and his behavior unpredictable and often comic but he broke the back of an evil regime and helped to start Russia on the pathway to freedom and peace.

Dasvidanya and God speed Boris Nikolayevich.

[fatnotlazy]

Sadly, I thought he was already gone.

Rest in Peace, Mr. Yeltzin.

[mfnorman]

did he eat sushi recently?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The world has lost one of it’s great drunks.

[alwaysconservative]

RIP, Mr. Yelstin. You did brave things in your life, and helped dismantle an “evil empire”.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BUMP