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It is hard now to remember the days when Boris Yeltsin was regarded as a hero, but a hero he was.(Brief article)
It is hard now to remember the days when Boris Yeltsin was regarded as a hero, but a hero he was. By resigning as the Communist party boss of Moscow, he made himself the leader of the opposition to the dying regime. By standing against an attempted putsch a few years later, he ensured that he would be the first elected president of a post-Communist Russia. But then the dreaming had to stop. Privatization was botched, with state assets being ...
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