Not in the same way they installed, for example, Syngman Rhee as dictator of South Korea, but Yeltsin or at least his bloc was certainly supported by US propaganda efforts before taking power, and it seems like he was collaborating with them on at least some propaganda efforts like the bit where he pretended he didn't know what a grocery store was while traveling in the US.
After he overthrew and dissolved the USSR he received both material and propaganda support from the US, receiving lavish praise when he massacred opposition MPs who were impeaching him for corruption and later he received considerable help from Bill Clinton when it looked like he would lose an election. That's the extent of what I've read about it, and I feel like if there were even a hint of stronger US involvement in the buildup to Yeltsin's coup against the USSR that would be way more prominent in leftist's accounts of the dissolution of the USSR.
the bit where he pretended he didn’t know what a grocery store was while traveling in the US
It wasn't a bit, he was just that fucking drunk all the time.
I want the failing American empire to have more piss drunk leaders. All we've had for the past few decades have been psychopathic tea totalers.
Someone put some Jameson in Covid Joe’s coffee, I wanna see him enter drunk Irish beast mode :whywhywhywhywhy:
and it seems like he was collaborating with them on at least some propaganda efforts like the bit where he pretended he didn’t know what a grocery store was while traveling in the US.
Unfortunately, that story is probably true.
Not really, no. America supported Yeltsin against the Congress during the constitutional crisis, and saved his ass in the 1996 election, but they didn't really install him.
