Is he radioactive?
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.