Thread: Boris Yeltsin has died
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23rd Apr 2007, 3:07 PM #1
Boris Yeltsin has died
Just announced on BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6584481.stm
Originally Posted by BBC News
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23rd Apr 2007, 3:21 PM #2
That's very sad. I remember our Politics teacher telling us how brilliant Yeltsin was for staying up over a few nights with a bottle of Vodka and writing a new Russian Constitution. And creating a more democratic Russia.
Despite the unhealthy lifestyle, I believe he was a great man.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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23rd Apr 2007, 5:16 PM #3Captain Tancredi Guest
Bill Clinton speaks very highly of him in his autobiography, and the world is probably the better for the stand he made against the nationalist coup against Gorbachev. The world will probably remember the drunken buffoon first, but I do believe he wanted to see a democratic Russia taking its place in the world community- the shame is that Putin is having to roll back some of his reforms because too much was tried too quickly and it nearly ended in anarchy.
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23rd Apr 2007, 9:27 PM #4
Yeltsin was that rarity, a modern world leader who could generally be said to have made a difference. Yeds, Russia may have suffered economic and social decline because of the reforms he introduced, but it did seem to become a much more free country.
Rest in peace, Boris.
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24th Apr 2007, 8:27 AM #5WhiteCrow Guest
Looks like he's going to lie in state - luckily he probably won't need any embalming fluid. For some reason though I'm reminded of when Father Jack "died" in Father Ted ...
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24th Apr 2007, 8:56 AM #6
I always liked Boris... may he rest in peace
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24th Apr 2007, 6:21 PM #7
I'm incredibly ignorant about world affairs, but I was never realy comfortable with the way Yeltsin came to power. I can't deny the bravery of the man when he stood up to the troops and the attempted coup, but I always felt that Gorbachev was trying to dismantle communism gradually from within (hence the coup), and by facing him down in the Kremlin afterwards Yeltsin gave him no opportunity to do anything but step down. Certainly I think the nastier aspects of the break up of the USSR, the Chechnia situation, and the subsequent corruption in Russia might have much reduced with a less radical shift in power than the one Yeltsin precipitated.
So bye Boris - you had good days and bad, but you were never boring.Bazinga !
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24th Apr 2007, 8:09 PM #8
He has voiced a few regrets, and I think that shows him of a man of true substance actually. He did make radical chages, and maybe some were too many and too fast but ultimately th echanges have probbaly been for the best, so he could at least say he made a difference. His passing is a real sad loss.
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