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25 Apr 07 - 06:57 AM (#2035177) Subject: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: GUEST,Liz Winsor 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. |
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25 Apr 07 - 02:54 PM (#2035621) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: Wolfgang 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 |
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25 Apr 07 - 03:19 PM (#2035652) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: Little Hawk 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...) |
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25 Apr 07 - 04:17 PM (#2035708) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
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25 Apr 07 - 05:27 PM (#2035776) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: Little Hawk 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). |
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26 Apr 07 - 11:23 AM (#2036304) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: Mr Fox 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. |
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26 Apr 07 - 01:46 PM (#2036445) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: McGrath of Harlow Why? There's a lot more respect felt for Alan Ball than there is for Yeltsin. |
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26 Apr 07 - 02:45 PM (#2036477) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: GUEST,Liz Winsor He was a gentleman and brought a lot of happiness to the lives of those who met him. |
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26 Apr 07 - 03:01 PM (#2036488) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: Jean(eanjay) A lot of people liked Boris Yeltsin; this is sad news. |
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26 Apr 07 - 11:56 PM (#2036813) Subject: RE: Obit: MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin From: Stephen L. Rich 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 |