April 23, 2007
Bye-bye, Boris
Boris Yeltsin, who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy as the country's first post-Communist president, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76.
Does this band now get more or less attention?
Posted by Karol at April 23, 2007 09:55 AM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Boris+Yeltsin
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Posted by: Eric at April 23, 2007 01:29 PMDemocracy was doing fine in Russia when Yeltsin took power. Then he outlawed political parties, arrested activists and practically gave the economy to the russian mob. Sometimes a bad system which works is better than a good idea which doesn't. Ask the people who had to suffer 2000% inflation.
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