My sentiment exactly, cousin. Yeltsin was a disaster for Russia. Under him, a narrow interest oligarchy took over and so-called "reformers" practically auctioned off all of Russia, so much so that one US Sentaor gleamed saying that Russia can't even make its own light bulbs!
He placed Russia's wealth into foreign hands, which in any normal country would have been considered treason.
He violated agreements with then Federal Republic of Yuggoslavia and stalled delivery of missiles capable of taking out NATO war planes at 5,000 ft or higher, while publicly, for domestic ocnsumption, railing against bombing of (predominantly) Serbia.
He was finally, and suddely, removed (probably under threat from the military) and retired rather than killed (probably under pressure from the US that no harm be done to him).
At this point I do even believe that his PR stunt on a Russian tank was a staged circus corehgraphed by our three-letter agenices. He was id'd as a western puppet and he received all the support and means to carry out what he was hired to do.
Let's not forget that he was a loyal communist for many years when it was benefitial to his career.
When he was basically fired from his shamless job, his popularity rating in Russia was mere 6%.
One of the first things Vladimir Putin did was to get ready of the Russian oligarchs whose loyalties were never to Russia.
Putin was not?? I’m not fan of Yeltsin at all, I can even understand that Putin is better. However he is still a thug and his political background, I mean former KGB apparatchiks are even worse.
Roman Abramovich belonged to Yeltsin favorite group of oligarch and today he stand firmly near Putin. The same with many other Russian oligarchs.