Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
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The man who stood atop a tank in 1991 and helped end the Soviet Union, then presided over Russia's chaotic lurch into capitalism — shock therapy, oligarchs, a parliament stormed by loyal troops, and a hobbled superpower losing its footing.
Born in the Urals in 1931, Yeltsin worked construction before climbing the Communist Party ladder to First Secretary in Sverdlovsk. He backed Gorbachev's perestroika, then broke left, calling the reforms too timid — in 1987 he became the first person to resign from the Politburo, cementing his anti-establishment credentials. By 1991 he was Russia's first popularly elected head of state and a key architect of the Soviet Union's formal dissolution that December. As president of the new Russian Federation, he launched economic shock therapy: privatization, price liberalization, the ruble set loos…
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A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.
Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.
For many years our two nations were the two powers, the two opposites. They wanted to make us implacable enemies, that effected the destinies of the world in a most tragic way.
Perhaps, for the first time ever there is now a real chance to put an end to despotism and to dismantle the totalitarian order, whatever shape it may take.
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