Question by : What should have Boris Yeltsin, first Russian President done?
to have Russia go other way. Not what it came to now?
If he condemned Communist party, Stalinism, Leninism, would Russia go other way? Would it go Japanese way? From military Imperialism to top of the world.
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Answer by Dmitry Bergoltsev
not have given the country to a group of oligarchs, and not have let russia fall into a state of chaos. He illegally shut down the USSR. Gorbachev (who is just as much to blame) put the vote to all citizens of Soviet Union whether it should continue to exist, but with a revised system of government (still communist, but like china), and 74 percent of voters wanted it to stay in existance. Yeltsin ignored this and claimed that the USSR was dead, and signed the document that Russia was now an independent country, not part of any Union. Gorbachev then had no choice but to sign the document ceasing the existance of Soviet Union. I will always believe that quality of life in russia and world power would have been better than now, had USSR still existed.
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Michael Lastname says
wasnt he an asian?
Slava T says
It’s not a question of moral condemnation only. First of all he should have introduced lustration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustration
There was a Constitutional Court case against the CPSU in 1992. It was far from enough to stop former Soviet functionaries (like Putin) from entering the Russian state bodies.
I have nothing against moderately left political forces but the continuation of the Communist party (to be more precise Soviet officials) should’ve been stopped.
Semaj says
Yes, absolutely, Yeltsin should have condemned Communism in no uncertain terms. Consider for a moment the fate of post World War II Germany. West Germany was rebuilt by the Western powers into what is now the strongest, most stable economy in the Euro Zone. And what about East Germany? When the Berlin Wall was knocked down in 1989, the Soviet bloc GDR was almost bankrupt and practically starving. The Russia Ruble, after more than 70 years under the control of the Communist Party, was so completely devalued that it was very nearly incapable of rehabilitation.