Frequently drunk in public and had tanks fire upon parliament when they tried to impeach him. Western libs never had an issue with authoritarianism in liberalized Russia until it stopped being subservient to the West.
The well was fundamentally poisoned when it came to implementing “democracy” in post-Soviet states; if the idea was, no more communist totalitarianism, no more state party, you can pick from multiple parties, that runs into a self-defeating issue for liberalism if the people just end up voting for the communist party. So they implemented de facto, or just outright explicit, bans on the communist party from gaining power. Being rigged was baked in.
Yeah, everyone had so much confidence in the guy who was frequently drunk in public while president.
Frequently drunk in public and had tanks fire upon parliament when they tried to impeach him. Western libs never had an issue with authoritarianism in liberalized Russia until it stopped being subservient to the West.
I hate Yeltsin whitewashing
I hate Yeltsin whitewashing
Also Rigged the elections with Americans and the yanks boasted about it.
The well was fundamentally poisoned when it came to implementing “democracy” in post-Soviet states; if the idea was, no more communist totalitarianism, no more state party, you can pick from multiple parties, that runs into a self-defeating issue for liberalism if the people just end up voting for the communist party. So they implemented de facto, or just outright explicit, bans on the communist party from gaining power. Being rigged was baked in.