Thread 17799142 - /his/ [Archived: 731 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:07:54 AM No.17799142
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Why was he so widely despised anyway?
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:08:49 AM No.17799143
He seized dictatorial power against the democratically elected parliament in a blatantly pro-West self-coup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:13:03 AM No.17799161
>>17799142 (OP)
tried to modernise russia, can't have that
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:13:55 AM No.17799164
>blatantly corrupt
>giga inept
>destroyed any chance for Russia to be a democratic state
>laid the path for putin and thus the current shitshow Russia has
this is only scratching the surface of it
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:14:44 AM No.17799167
>>17799164
>>destroyed any chance for Russia to be a democratic state
But he was a liberal democrat himself. He was stopping the tankies and nazis from taking over.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:15:50 AM No.17799170
>>17799142 (OP)
Russia is always either led by weak inept fools or strongmen who murder the populace by the millions. The strongmen get remembered as great leaders while the weak leaders get ridiculed by their history books
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:36:25 PM No.17800646
>>17799161
P much. Russia prides itself on its backwater status and any attempts to modernize would be viewed as capitulating to America and we can't have that.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 4:18:38 PM No.17800725
Why do westies VGH about this guy so much in between seething about Putin, oligarchs, corruption and general shitholery in Russia?
Yeltsin is the father of literally all of that. He walked so Putin could run.