Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin

Subject: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: GUEST,Liz Winsor
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 06:57 AM

Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died Monday at age 76.He will be remembered as a "hands on" man.

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: Wolfgang
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 02:54 PM

It is rumoured that to his special honour on the day of his burial instead of the flag flying half mast the wodka production will be halved for one day.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 03:19 PM

This proves it. Alcohol kills people. ;-)

Yeltsin was the most disastrous excuse for a leader of a great nation that I have seen in a long time. (well, excepting George Bush, I guess...)

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 04:17 PM

A disaster for Russia and for the rest of the world too.

The quarrel with the Soviet Union was always presented to us as being about repression and the denial of democracy. Russia today still has the repression and denial of democracy, but thanks to Yelstin it's been asset stripped and socially wrecked.

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 05:27 PM

I think the West had it planned that way all along. It was a very successful plan. And Yeltsin was the perfect tool to accomplish the utter ruination of his country, on behalf of western carpetbaggers and Russian Mafia thugs. It was the biggest theft carried out in the name of "spreading democracy" that I have ever witnessed (from a distance).

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: Mr Fox
Date: 26 Apr 07 - 11:23 AM

I find it somewhat sad that this thread has considerably less entries that that for a fat ex-footballer with a squeaky voice.

RIP Boris.

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Apr 07 - 01:46 PM

Why? There's a lot more respect felt for Alan Ball than there is for Yeltsin.

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: GUEST,Liz Winsor
Date: 26 Apr 07 - 02:45 PM

He was a gentleman and brought a lot of happiness to the lives of those who met him.

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 26 Apr 07 - 03:01 PM

A lot of people liked Boris Yeltsin; this is sad news.

Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 26 Apr 07 - 11:56 PM

A sad truth is that while we, in the West, will remember him as the man who brought democracy to the Soviets, the Russians will, most probably, remember him in much the way that people in the United States remember Herbert Hoover.

Stephen Lee