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A little side trip by Boris Yeltsin when he was in town visiting NASA turned out to be a huge revelation to him. He was amazed at the quality and availability of foods in America. Allegedly he realized how far behind Russia had gotten and felt there would be a revolution if Russians realized America had this in most neighborhoods.
A little side trip by Boris Yeltsin when he was in town visiting NASA turned out to be a huge revelation to him. He was amazed at the quality and availability of foods in America. Allegedly he realized how far behind Russia had gotten and felt there would be a revolution if Russians realized America had this in most neighborhoods.
Let me guess - six cabbages, four turnips, twelve bags of potatoes and forty seven bottles of vodka.
FDR when asked what single book he would put into the hands of a communist replied: "the Sears Roebuck catalog." Too bad for the Russians that they got a boozer instead of a George Washington in their time of transformation. I'm sure he meant well, but history might have been markedly different but for the vodka.
Yeltsin was one of those figures who stuck around way past his usefulness, but what he did 1989-93 was monumentally important for the cause of peace in the world.
FDR when asked what single book he would put into the hands of a communist replied: "the Sears Roebuck catalog." Too bad for the Russians that they got a boozer instead of a George Washington in their time of transformation. I'm sure he meant well, but history might have been markedly different but for the vodka.
A drunk Boris Yeltsin was good enough to pick as his sucessor a a little man with big ambitions for Mother Russia. Out of the many he could have chosen what was it than commended Vladimir Putin to Boris Yeltsin? I think it was Boris way of naming his Boy Sue (Like the protagonist in the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue".
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