2007-04-23 03:14:03 · 19 answers · asked by ToM 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think it's a day for all those things.
Politcally, Mr Yeltsin was naive yet strong. He was no administrator, but he was a man who believed in the power of people, and courageoulsy defended the democratic process even though many wanted to have him killed.
In poltical terms, it is a day of apathy, because Yelstin was THE man for a particular moment, and the moment is long past.
It was a day of joy, because it reminded me of just what a character he was. He could change like the wind, get angry, shout abuse, stagger around drunk, and yet, laugh and joke with Bill Clinton until the tears ran down their faces. He was a wonderfully Russian human-being; emotional, spontaneous and yet quite a bear to those who challenged him.
A day of sdaness perhaps, because he had become, like Mr Gorbachev, a forgotten figure in a sequence of events which changed the face of the world.
2007-04-24 11:07:03 · answer #1 · answered by musonic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Years ago I would possibly have celebrated Yeltsins death,but in view of the people who now command the world stage he appears an almost peaceful character.
2007-04-23 05:22:49 · answer #2 · answered by geoff t 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Turning guns on the elected Russian parliament. The brutal invasion of Chechnya. Economic chaos. Squandering a whole decade in which he could have implimented actual democratic reform in Russia. Paving the way for Putin's autocracy. He was a feather-weight, at a time when Russia needed a great man.
2016-05-17 04:57:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apathy for me, great sadness for the very rich few who benefited from his sell-off of state utilities at knock-down prices. Moscow now has more billionaires than any other city, and they'll be mourning than man who made it possible by ripping off the Russian people.
2007-04-23 22:47:49 · answer #4 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its a day of sadness really. He wasn't a very effective politician or leader of his country, but he stood up to the authorities in the Soviet Union when nobody else would and led his people against them.
His contribution to the fall of the Soviet Union must never be forgotten
2007-04-23 04:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Spacephantom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeltsin was a man that believed in reforming the former USSR, and, in democracy. His true leadership was in not going back to media control, as, Putin has done. Too bad Russia is under the grips of its "old ways", in part, today.
2007-04-23 03:19:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
It is never joyful when someone dies but the man presided over the biggest rip off of national assets in the history of the human race. And that is his legacy.
2007-04-23 08:45:07 · answer #7 · answered by K. Marx iii 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was there to be counted when it mattered, but he went on too long and became an embarassment. I'm sorry he's gone, modern politics needs some colour right now.
2007-04-23 03:54:53 · answer #8 · answered by Duffer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sad in this sense. He had a unique opportunity to reshape his country and he did squander it. He let nepotism and corruption run rampant and so effectively destroyed any chance for a democratic Russia.
2007-04-23 10:28:05 · answer #9 · answered by gortamor 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whershhhhhhhhh my Vodkaaa - Putin shtole my Voddy
2007-04-23 03:17:03 · answer #10 · answered by jamand 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋