A day or so after the birth centenary of Lenin, Boris Yelstin died. And I found this comment in Time as most interesting
“Gorbachev ruined the Soviet Union. Yeltsin ruined Russia”: Vladimir Melnikov, janitor, handyman and an occasional driver:
and I guess the forever sad Russian people have learned about capitalism the hard way. Just as they learned about the so- called ‘socialism’ the hard way. Yeltsin was Gorbachev’s crucial mistake, and he realized it only after it was too late.
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A day or so after the birth centenary of Lenin, Boris Yelstin died. And I found this comment in Time as most interesting
“Gorbachev ruined the Soviet Union. Yeltsin ruined Russia”: Vladimir Melnikov, janitor, handyman and an occasional driver:
and I guess the forever sad Russian people have learned about capitalism the hard way. Just as they learned about the so- called ‘socialism’ the hard way. Yeltsin was Gorbachev’s crucial mistake, and he realized it only after it was too late.