Sometimes the story of a fallen leader is best told through his or her own words... So today we're going to bring back some archival cuts of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin in the first hour. Then, in hour two, we'll bring on Russia expert Michael McFaul to give us a historical perspective of the man and his legacy. Do you have personal memories of Yeltsin and the tumultuous 90s... the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the coup attempt, the constitutional crisis, the food shortages?
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Yelstisn was a weak leader who plunged the country into a downward spiral from which it still struggles to recover. He was very convenient puppet for the "enlightened"holier-than-though-know -it- better-than you-by-default West - willing to bend over, whichever way, as long as he there was "good boy" coming from the DC or Brussels. He was absolute disaster, insofar as ordinary Russian citizen is concerned. The present day Russian "anti-westrenism"and ,practically allergic reaction, to the word "liberal"in that country, are direct results of the submissive polices of the Yeltsin era (and of "the West"who abused Russians trust to the absolutely unimaginable degree) . If you think it is bad now -you just wait for another 15-20 years when generation of the Russians, who were in their 20s during Yelstin era, comes to rule Russia.
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