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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
What are the bets that he was knocked off too? Everyone else is dropping like flies over there.
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Him? By who?
What do I say as a Russian?
GOOD F@#%&NG RIDDANCE
I said the same when he stepped down on Dec 31, 1999.
The man was one of the worst leaders Russia has ever had (and given the country's history of them... what a compliment!), a criminally irresponsible president and a thug of the worst variety. Though not singlehandedly, he choked a shaky Russian democracy in its infancy and made sure it couldn't come back. He put on a face of a true progressive leader for the west - but when challenged by an elected parliament from within, he responded by sending tanks and killing deputies and protestors. He is very much responsible for the dire hardships of everyday Russians and the disastrous privatization which killed any chances of a Russian middle class and quite wittingly gave a small elite all the riches of Russia, with his own family becoming one of the richest in Russia.
I knew it'd end this way. My own wishful thinking wishes that it ended with him hanging from the end of a rope, or, as he promised "put his head on the railroad tracks if his reforms failed". Otherwise, I've no trouble admitting that had I met him in a dark alley while being armed with a gun, I would've shot the bastard on behalf of the millions of Russians he made to suffer, millions he made to leave, millions for whose unneeded deaths (by various causes) I hold him responsible. There is more blood on his hands than most people realize. It is in part his blame that I am not a Russian citizen today and refuse to become one.
Rest in shame, EBN.
