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Russians will remember Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, for overseeing the economic reforms that reduced many of them to penury and for the geopolitical surrender that - briefly - rendered an erstwhile superpower irrelevant to global events. They will remember his thuggish treatment of political enemies and the brutal folly of his war in Chechnya; and they will remember the whiff of corruption over his inner circle and his bargain-basement sale of the Russian state's most lucrative economic assets to a cabal of oligarchs in exchange for their funding of his reelection in 1996. Indeed...
...finest moments Yeltsin showed a side to Russia that the West could believe in, a Russia that shared the West's values and interests. But Yeltsin's ineptness, and a recalcitrant opposition, meant that in the end he could only deliver a weak nation to Vladimir Putin, who is fashioning once again a Russia that is a threat to the West...
...Boris Yeltsin will be more fondly remembered, as the man who turned the menacing Russian bear of Cold War fear-mongering into a warm and cuddly creature, supine, pitiable and willing to perform in exchange for scraps. And for one glorious moment in the hot summer of 1991, when he stood atop a tank in front of the Russian White House and faced down a coup...
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...Photo Essay: Boris Yeltsin 1931-2007