Boris Yeltsin - The Making of a Leader (2001 Documentary)

[@EdutainmentSeeker]

Khrushchev succeeded Stalin in ‘53. Not sure why he says ‘60 at 04:05

[@phil4863]

Not everyone is historically astute ..lol

[@NickolaySheitanov]

Because it's made by americans

[@bidenwearstrumpscrappypamp1829]

No that was Malenkov.

[@roubika1922]

Excellent documentary Gorbachev was right to say that Boris is a destructive man and not a constructive one

[@daddy_1453]

That's funny coming from "Superpower Slayer" Gorbachev.

[@coveredinthorns7185]

Yeah Gorbachev isn't a good guy but he is less of a Stalinist than most the leaders that followed

[@InspectorA-r2e]

@@coveredinthorns7185 Gorbachev, who was stupid and incompetent, needed to introduce capitalism, similar to what Deng Xiaoping did.

[@dungeon_masster.]

ты абсолютно неправ. Ельцин в отличии от горбачева был решительным, он провел необходимые для страны реформы которые слабый и нерешительный горбачев просто тормозил

[@DENCSER]

A kulak is not just a "rich peasant". A kulak is an oligarch farmer, an exploiter farmer. A village capitalist.

[@lilibertnyasunu3564]

There is also a Boris Yeltsin in the UK named Boris Johnson.

[@LandAnchor]

One more dependent upon lies arguably. 😂

[@BritishEngineer]

And drinking drunk during lockdown-

[@Jay-pt9yg]

Both equally hated by their peers😂

[@robinm4403]

Damn, I will not name my children with Boris.

[@DENCSER]

A kulak is not just a "rich peasant". A kulak is an oligarch farmer, an exploiter farmer. A village capitalist.

[@besarionioselini2089]

მიყვარდა უსაშველოთ რადგან უბრალო იყო !

[@Espedals]

How accurate is this documentary? I'm especially interested to hear your opinion if you're an academic or historian of some sort. Thanks.

[@earthandwind820]

Øystein Espedal Yeltsin is strongly hated by the general Russian population and no one argues this. From my observation as a progressive with Russian knowledge, and who knows people who have taught English around the country, Putin isn’t as popular as Western media claims but he’s not Yeltsin either. Many of the so-called “Russia activists” and “Russia experts” are recycled from the chaotic and mindblowingly corrupt 90’s, not legitimate activists. You’ll never see the legitimate activists on CNN, BBC or MSNBC. You won’t see a lot of Russian protests either. Some of these recycled opportunists include Khordokovsky (richest man in Russia during the 1998 economic crisis), Nemtsov (played a pivotal role in shock therapy), Alexander Lebedev (owns Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s current largest opposition newspaper. However, he was one of the biggest oligarchs during the 90’s & bought several newspapers so they wouldn’t criticize him. He’s also an ex-KGB officer) and even Ksenia Sobchak...a deeply classist, daughter of the mayor of St. Petersburg during the 90’s. She lives behind the richest gated community in Russia, and spends most of her time bragging about her luxury vacations and clothes, yet somehow knows the majority of Russia’s population is *insert negative label here* to get on western tv. Anyone with true knowledge into Russia would easily be able to see that these people are opportunists and out-of-touch with Russian society, but our western governments and media keep pushing them onto Russian people. Putin vs the people above vs the communists vs nationalists - Russian people are essentially fucked over by their “options”. They’re all garbage and not good for common people. Long story short, the US government pushed Yeltsin knowing there were more democratic options than him and the communists during the 90’s. This true democratic force advised against shock therapy and didn’t like the American government interfering in Russia. They said shock therapy would destroy Russia’s economy and deeply hurt common people. They wanted normal relations with the us and the west, but not a puppet government. The US now promotes many of these recycled assholes from the 90’s, instead of legit activists, as legitimate victims of Putin, anti-corruption activists and pro-democracy and liberal forces. Many Russians have a sour taste for the word liberal, not because they’re the ultra conservative freaks the media claims they are by showing certain types of people, but because the people who implemented shock therapy and almost collapsed Russia used to call themselves “the liberals”. They were NEOliberals, not progressives. Plenty of journalists were assassinated during the Yeltsin years, and Russian media felt censored, but our western media pretended everything was okay. Anyway, he is promoted as great because he was a puppet of the western elite, but Russians view him as the man who sold the country to the elite and starved them.

[@kckstnd8]

@@earthandwind820 wrong. Yeltsin wasn’t widely hated. Most of what you said is Dribble and void of any basic political science

[@georgecurly5965]

@@kckstnd8 How do you know? What what I've heard and red most of what he said was spot on.

[@brent.johnson]

@@georgecurly5965 It's probably just more complex than your Russian bot brain can compute.

[@yellyman5483]

@@kckstnd8 He is very accurate about Yeltsin. He was a disaster for Russia. I think the Russians would have been better off keeping Gorbachev in power. At least he didn`t steal from his own people. And as far as Putin.. Well.. We all know what a piece of shit he is.. A war criminal who was enabled by Yeltsin.

[@es_for1]

if the people that shot this see this, that opening camera movment + the music was really sick. something cinematic about it

[@ciprianpopa1503]

Copy that. They took the pills for that sickness.

[@jan-olovandersson1533]

@@ciprianpopa1503 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@jan-olovandersson1533]

@@ciprianpopa1503 byt ide ! ? ? Jos ,jan

[@jan-olovandersson1533]

He he he he

[@icysaracen3054]

Yeltsin life sounds like he was meant to be born in America, not Russia.

[@PrimericanIdol]

He would have been Donald Trump's twin.

[@xres1329]

America has nothing to do with him or with the video. I am American and I met him face to face. Those were the days.

[@tresloin728]

He even looks American lol

[@PrimericanIdol]

@@tresloin728 AMLO is a Mexican Yeltsin.

[@larapalma3744]

Except for da wodka😂

[@ludakapkina9308]

Thank you for this program. Today Mr.Yeltsin could be 90 years...

[@treetop5752]

HE IS STILL ALIVE! HE WAS CAUGHT RIDING PUTIN DOGGY SYLE IN THE KREMLIN MASSAGE THERAPY OFFICE LAST WEEK

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Е́льцин; 1 February 1931 - 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. During the late 1980s, Yeltsin had been a candidate member of the Politburo, and in late 1987 tendered a letter of resignation in protest. No one had resigned from the Politburo before. This act branded Yeltsin as a rebel and led to his rise in popularity as an anti-establishment figure. On 29 May 1990, he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. On 12 June 1991, he was elected by popular vote to the newly created post of President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). Upon the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991, the RSFSR became the sovereign state of the Russian Federation, and Yeltsin remained in office as president. He was re-elected in the 1996 election, in which critics widely claimed pervasive corruption; in the second round he defeated Gennady Zyuganov from the revived Communist Party by a margin of 13.7%. However, Yeltsin never recovered his early popularity after a series of economic and political crises in Russia in the 1990s. Yeltsin transformed Russia's socialist economy into a capitalist market economy, implementing economic shock therapy, market exchange rate of the ruble, nationwide privatization and lifting of price controls. Yeltsin proposed a new Russian constitution which was popularly approved at the 1993 constitutional referendum. However, due to the sudden total economic shift, a majority of the national property and wealth fell into the hands of a small number of oligarchs. Rather than creating new enterprises, Yeltsin's policies led to international monopolies hijacking the former Soviet markets, arbitraging the huge difference between old domestic prices for Russian commodities and the prices prevailing on the world market. In the arena of foreign policy, Yeltsin offered cooperative and conciliatory relations, particularly with the Group of Seven, CIS and OSCE, as well as adherence to arms control agreements, such as START II. Much of the Yeltsin era was marked by widespread corruption, and as a result of persistent low oil and commodity prices during the 1990s, Russia suffered inflation and economic collapse. Within a few years of his presidency, many of Yeltsin's initial supporters had started to criticize his leadership, and Vice President Alexander Rutskoy even denounced the reforms as "economic genocide". Ongoing confrontations with the Supreme Soviet climaxed in the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, in which Yeltsin ordered the dissolution of the Supreme Soviet parliament, which (as a result) attempted to remove him from office. In October 1993, troops loyal to Yeltsin stopped an armed uprising outside of the parliament building, leading to a number of deaths. On 31 December 1999, under enormous internal pressure, Yeltsin announced his resignation, leaving the presidency in the hands of his chosen successor, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin left office widely unpopular with the Russian population. Yeltsin kept a low profile after his resignation, though he did occasionally publicly criticise his successor. Yeltsin died of congestive heart failure on 23 April 2007.

[@cla1814]

Boris was actually a Western puppet that destroyed Russia. Right after he became president the Belovezh Accords were signed to divide Russia into different countries. This was just the beginning the end goal was to Divide Russia the same way Yugoslavia was divided since is easier to exploit and manipulate smaller groups of nations. Right after Boris got elected Russia was in utter chaos. Boris destroyed the country's economy, military, and industrial capacity. He was an acoholic that when he was in Washington he got confused by a random alcholic in the streets. Boris also ordered the equivalent of USA white house to be shelled by tanks and Clinton congratulate him for it. Since it was a step toward "Democracy" you know that democracy Iraq enjoyed when USA occupied and bombed the country.

[@frederickbelak9560]

Yeltsin,was anything but a leader. He was an cunning,overly ambitious,corrupt man who was primarily motivated,not for the rightful goal of justice,economic prosperity and freedom for all of the unions people's,but for his own personal and families needs and to gain extreme power and thereby wealth. First,he used the current power base,the communists,to further those aims. But due also to his arrogance,difficult personality and then his drinking he was limited by the Soviet power structure elites,as to going to the ultimate power structures. Gorbachev,through his well intentioned but totally misguided way of reforming,allowed this man to rise up again,to a high position. The all important head of the Russian state of the Soviet union itself. But not the highest level. But the failure of the coup in August of 1991,poorly planned,managed afterward opened a clear path to this man to full power. It then became just a matter of shoving the lame duck now dead wood,Gorbachev,out of the picture. A tough leader could have fought back prevented it. But Gorbachev,weak and hating the Soviet union for it's failures,not also seeing any good and trying to build on that,the whole supposed reason for his leadership,simply have way without a fight,and in fact basically handed the Soviet union to Yeltsin. It was like in our country,because,Washington had slaves,Lincoln didn't believe blacks were equal both men times were different,from today,said our country thus deserved to die,no mention of all the good Washington and Lincoln did for our country and how they thus made our country better for Americans and humanity in fact. Once in power,Yeltsin,sold off everything to a few powerful people. Making millions for himself and impoverishing most of the Russian people. He made Russia a second rate power thus economically not helping his people economically from the failures of the Soviet system,we always bring up,but in fact made them worse by far. And also destroyed the Russians as a superpower nation and weakened the military,to second rate power as well. And all the while his drinking got worse to become a buffoon on the world stage. He allowed foreign western countries to come in and also take whatever they wanted at bargain prices. He allowed us the US to proclaim we won the cold war and humilate the proud Russians,who like us,are rare that in they have an instinct to play a role a big one in shaping world events. He then still had to work with an elected pro communist legislature. But when due mostly to his mismanagement all that I have described tried to impeach him legally and did,he staged an attack and coupon them. The military sided with him,they had the guns,and he won total power. He set up a fake democracy,and even then had to stage a rigged election,helped sadly by our nation,to win election in it's first election in 1996. All of these anti democratic actions,we attacked the Soviet union for all those years,suddenly didn't warrant a peep of complaint against him by us,because it served our nations elites,political and economic interests. His fatal mistake,beyond drinking and then being seen on the public stage, to intolerable levels was in reducing Russian power to such an extent,that even his warning to western powers not to go against Serbia,Serbia always being a red line with all Russians,as brothers in spirit etc,under Russian protections,meant nothing,and the US western nations went in and did what they want. That was the final straw for the Still powerful KGB under a new name,who saw that Russia if it continues as is would be destroyed,Nato expansion,allowed under Yeltsin to be even more expanded,in former Soviet satellite states birding Russia, was another sore point,and forced Yeltsin,to yield power to Putin,from the KGB. Yeltsin,went along,under conditions he and his family would face no punishment or economic penalty for what they had done to the country economically,politically,or how they benefited from massive coruption. That led to Putin,the average Russians becoming hateful to the west,that allowed Yeltsin,to seize total power,with a false democracy on steroids,and become a continuing ever bigger threat to our nation. Worse,the Russian people were denied once again the rightful chance to finally have true freedom and liberty for themselves and their country. Yeltsin,was anything but a true leader. Except for those who just glorify the end of the Soviet Union,,and nothing else. Had a Washington or Lincoln been Yeltsin in Russia in 1991,the events that played out may have ushered in a new breadth of freedom for all people's in the world,instead of an even more Insidious,road to oppression,economic hardship,loss of trust in our leaders,and further economic hardships for Russians and in fact,all people's of the world. PRay for peace in the world.

[@ArisFilms]

thank you comrade

[@xres1329]

So you are one who defines the characteristics of "leader"? What a modesty!😏🤞

[@matthewkirkham9071]

@@ArisFilms you communists with your comrade rubbish

[@matthewkirkham9071]

Too much

[@sanderdeboer6034]

Interesting story, but with too much patriotic lies. USSR was NOT a superpower for many decades before 1991. The economy was (and is) failing in all aspects. I do agree the Russian population was dealt an awful blow with the corruption that was already rampant before the coup. The USSR was bankrupt at least one decade before is crashed. I sort of understand the hatred towards both the corrupt sovjet government and how companies from all over the world (not just the west) took over FAILING companies in the former sovjet union. They INVESTED and saved what could be saved. Like happened in East Germany. It is easy to blame foreign companies for the failings of the communist system that fully bankrupted the country. And most of the wealth created by the Russian industries that became available only went to a small group of oligarchs who used their political connections (with Jeltsin). So blame them mostly for the trouble Russia is in now.

[@mj6742]

I would like someone to explain to me why did Yeltsin order reinforcement when he was pro revolution and he let two unsanctioned demonstrations later to be held in Moscow? what changed? why was he awarded the order of Lenin and what made him gain a full membership in the central committee of the CPSU?

[@bupe007]

The CPSU at that time was very weak. Stalin could have washed his head, but Stalin was dead. Communism at that time was nothing but a thin peace of paper. The power was gone. Russia was a giant without leader. Yeltsin a drunkard. Then Putin took power!

[@swanskogjsson151]

Well, I think he was to hasty. I don’t oppose his ideas, at least the ideas he had in the beginning of his term. He had good intentions and people supported both him and his ideas. But he tried to rush his reforms in a way that were impossible in a great country like Russia. And it led to several crizes that hit his people hard. And I do think that the crizes made him turn to the bottle even more than before, making him to be a joke instead of a leader. A bad joke, cause his poor decisions or lack of them, hurt the people. Quite tragic, really.

[@wonka4]

crises *

[@durshurrikun150]

"I don’t oppose his ideas" of course you aren't, you, as a westerner, have benefitted from western colonization and plundering of Russia in the '90s. "He had good intentions" To you they are good because you were able to benefit from Russia's exploitation. "people supported both him and his ideas" False, which is why people were protesting and revolting a year after he took power.

[@tradcathasian]

If you didn't know the song performed at the end is a rendition of "Zhuravli" performed by Mark Bernes.

[@matthewp956]

Intresting! I've always wondered what that song was!

[@peterregorsek1504]

Yeltsin was a capitalistic stalinist. In time of his power there was a joke like this: "Now we don`t have stalinists anymore, Yeltsin sent them to gulags".

[@Eugeeny87]

About Yeltsin: always I was surprised by disputes of his activity. Some people, with the specific device of those brains, on some, unclear to me reason, call him democrat. Execution of own parliament from tanks. Is that a democratic decision? And also, unleashing of civil war (Chechnya), Is that democratic decision too? I in such cases always ask, what else democracy exept Yeltsin's has executions of parliaments and civil wars? In reply I hear only that I understand nothing, in what from part I agree since to me, the healthy person, it is really difficult to understand psychology of the maniac with the megalomania aggravated with alcoholism.

[@-Glove-]

+GoodStuffe Nough You can be an authoritarian democrat, like stalin.

[@Eugeeny87]

Link4093 for what?

[@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588]

@@-Glove- how was Stalin at all a democrat?

[@-Glove-]

@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 Democrat in terms of having popular support. Just because authority is used does not mean decisions can not be backed by a democratic system. Not the way Americans think of the word democrat. At least that's what I think I meant five years ago.

[@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588]

@@-Glove- I didn’t even see the date lol. I think you might be using the word democrat wrong. It’s hard to tell how much popular support Stalin actually had given that he‘d created a cult of personality around himself and there weren’t really any polls at the time. Stalins authority was absolute. The government did not function without him, so I’m not too sure what democratic system exactly you‘re talking about. More importantly, though, how’s life been? Five years is a lot of time.

[@alexanderchenf1]

Gorbachev was so kind. The political struggles in 1989 in China was way more brutal. The liberal minded leader Zhao Ziyang was under house arrest up to the 21st century to his death. I miss Gorbachev and Yeltsin

[@Ukrassiankssr]

Deng Xiaoping was liberal tol but he never overshadowed that by his Conservative aspects, unlike Gorbachev and Zhao ziyang and Hu yaobang, Deng allowed liberal reform but left the Conservative Marxism to adopted it into a modern era becoming popular and still admire by the Next generation, unlike the decaying Sovietism it becomes clear that communism was being old and too unpopular, and undesirable stagnant that just like a monarch aristocracy it was being left behind cannot keep up with time. And that was Deng does he was a genius while Gorbachev is smart his reform lacks of vision and discipline, iron grip, and practice, while Yeltsin abandoned that.

[@윤준수-s3n]

11:39 song?

[@lucasfreeland8412]

Documentary makes significant mistakes. "In 1960, Khrushchev succeeded Stalin" (4:11). Stalin died in '53, Khrushchev assumed complete control after about a year with the execution of Laurentii Beria. Also, lying about kulak status wasn't that abnormal. Gorbachev himself had two grandfathers that were imprisoned under Stalin.

[@xres1329]

Quite irrelevant and unimportant hair splittings. Make a better video than this-If you can! And learn "significant" from Websters?

[@penjamfilms]

Some of the editing in this documentary is pretty cool :D

[@saffandsev3888]

what is the piece of music at the beginning called?

[@imatanyani]

Wow! He was really a natural leader. I'm inspired by how he navigated his political journey. He refused to be anyone's puppet and used his reasoning.

[@Zeus-bc8fv]

He was a drunk puppet of the west. There’s an old Soviet joke that says Yeltsin got so drunk one night that he lost half of the Soviet republics. The following night got drunk again…

[@David_Lloyd-Jones]

@@Zeus-bc8fv No, he wasn't a puppet of the West. I've heard that in various crude forms from other Russians enough to know that he has enemies spreading that particular slander, but it's just not true. What you have to realise is that after a generation of Brezhnev -- on top of the foundational unworkability of the Soviet system -- any change at all had to be change in the direction of the West. The only other direction was off the edge of everything into nothing but chaos. The non-Western direction was represented only by the anti-Gorbachev clown-parade. The drunk part, however, you may have pretty much correct, some of the time and at the end at least. As with the slanders above, though, it seems likely that his drunkennes has been exaggerated at every opportunity by his enemies.

[@arty5876]

And got drunk at the end!

[@Nuttymike]

Yeltsin was a stooge.

[@thespamdance311]

He was the puppet of the oligarchs, who ransacked Russia on his drunken watch.

[@TheChidopuntocom]

What is the name of the song in minute 15:36.

[@nofrackingzone7479]

Leader? Perhaps at one time, later in life he became little more than a drunken dancing bear. Earlier in life he would have been at home with a group of American corporate leaders without question. In 1991 when he faced an armed revolt by a group of semi competent communist officials he called then President George H Bush and Prime Minister John Major for help. Then President Bush and Prime Minister Major offered token discussions but little more. They could overtly do nothing. Covertly, that's a different story. In the end you can say that Yeltsin avenged his father's exile and helped end the Soviet era.

[@Dadaf1]

Isisnt that enough for one man to do? End “socialist servedome” in his home country? Of course he would reach out to the west. Look at the GDP in the 60s for both countries. It’s obvious, how can you make change without money? He even backs a union head based on what he learned. He manipulated his way up. Like all western politicians

[@xres1329]

Have you ever heard of a thing - called:"LIFE"?

[@vasadodenc7814]

A TRUE CLOWNISH STUPID BIG BEAT TWEST FELL IN LOVE WITH SUCH A WILLING DUMMY - GOOD RIDDINS

[@matthewJ142]

I had no idea he was missing 2 left fingers. He apparently blew the off playing with a grenade as a young boy. Even though his years as President were full of problems but I have some sympathy for Yeltsin. The only reason he is so unfavorable is because of the over changing of Russia's economy and incessant in fighting of the parliament. And as much as America may not like Putin as much but you have to give him credit, he succeeded in where Yeltsin failed by curbing the oligarchs and bringing the Russian economy to new heights. And Gorbachev as well. He had an idea to help the Russian people. So he wasn't as bad a person. There was just a lot of shitty people in parliament and high government positions. And nobody ever talks about that

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

Yeltsin lost his fingers playing with a grenade 😳🤦‍♂️ Just when you think it cant get any weirder/funnier when it comes to Yeltsin 😂 the guy was too funny

[@mwendapoleee]

Me too he looked like a lay back fellah.

[@mozambique9113]

@@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051 As a russian, I hope your country gets leader like Yeltsin for one full decade.

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

@@mozambique9113 muchas gracias pendejo

[@ciprianpopa1503]

Eltsin came as a sort of Castro revolutionary and ended up being the creator of the oligarch system that plagued all the USSR new states. He was an ignorant bigoted drunktard with no clue and ended up doing what it is easier in Russia, that is stealing everything while he could and run away with it. Then appointed one of his robbery bed-fellows to let him enjoy the loot.

[@pepechen]

Good documentary, very pertinent to offer so much detail of those years. And after all of this, if he indeed had had in him some measure of idealism and honest concern in the early years, even with his bulldozing style, at the very end, his instinct for self-preservation (that is, his and his daughter's), not the best interests of the country, led him to pluck Putin out of obscurity and give him power. And for that, he is responsible for Russia's current predicament.

[@individualist00000]

The Making of a "Leader" lol that's a good one

[@kimseniorb]

conformist he’s a fucking disgrace lol, peasant with a huge drinking problem

[@KKTR3]

Way not watch it Be open to the history Of him . Russian could not have got from where it was To where you are today without the defender of Gorbachev revolution ,there had to be steeping stones.

[@johncronin9540]

kimseniorb Well, he’s hardly the first leader to have a drinking problem. You act as if he invented the disease of alcoholism. And you are moralizing what is a disease. What is unfamiliar to you is not so unfamiliar to American eyes, which is the process of getting to the level of ordinary people and campaigning for votes. And in the early days of American politics, alcohol was part of the campaign. Russia is not used to democracy, having known, sadly, only autocracy. First under the Tsars, and then from Communist dictators who ruled like Tsars. Democracy is messy, not neat, at times demeaning. Churchill put it best. “Democracy is the worst form of government... except for all the others that have been tried”. But bear this in mind. To the best of my knowledge, Yeltsin is the ONLY leader of Russia, throughout its long history, who was democratically elected, and who willingly left office. He didn’t try to be President for life. In the US, George Washington is considered great precisely BECAUSE he voluntarily surrendered power. First, when he returned his Commission as Commander of the Continental Army, and again, when he refused to be elected to a third term as president. Washington COULD have been made a king, had he wanted it. His greatness lied not in the EXERCISE of power, but in the SURRENDER of power. And Yeltsin, for all his flaws, his drinking, his struggles with the attempted transition from dictatorship to democracy (an EXTREMELY difficult feat to pull off, especially so rapidly), did VOLUNTARILY surrender power, and returned to private life. Yes, Yeltsin had his flaws. But so did Washington (he owned human beings as SLAVES!). So do ALL human beings. That’s precisely the point. Our Founders KNEW they were flawed, and tried to create a system which would limit the power any one person can acquire. That system is now being tested here in the US in a way it has never been tested before. It’s admittedly a flawed system, in need of many reforms. And Trump is not a drinker. (Neither was Hitler, by the way). But Yeltsin voluntarily surrendered power. Putin, on the other hand, clearly wants a return to autocracy, a step backward. He CRAVES power, and many who have tried to challenge him have suffered mysterious attacks, and many have died. Poison, including radioactive poison, which is not something a private person can just purchase at the corner drugstore. Given a choice between Yeltsin and Putin, I’d choose Yeltsin every time. Warts and all, I think he was genuinely committed to democracy. He had no cult of personality like far more flawed human beings such as Stalin, and even Lenin, both committed autocrats and tyrants. And Putin is closer to autocracy than democracy, which is FAR more than holding elections. It’s about the peaceful transfer of power from the party in power to the “loyal opposition”. That was John Adams contribution to American democracy. He was the first sitting president to be defeated by a political opponent, and he willingly (if unhappily) surrendered power to his political opponent, Thomas Jefferson. That’s a test yet to come for Russia. But it’s critical for a truly free society. In a sense you could say that Gorbachev yielded to Yeltsin, but then that contest really wasn’t decided as an election.

[@johncronin9540]

@Craig Burley You prefer Putin? Now? I’m not saying that Yeltsin was Abraham Lincoln, or FDR. But you have to consider the system he came from, and which Putin would like to drag not only Russia, but it appears other former Soviet republics back to. Bear in mind what Putin once said, that in his opinion, the worst disaster to happen to the USSR was its dissolution. Apparently the famines of the 1920’s and 1930’s, the civil wars of the early 1920’s, Stalin, and last but certainly not least, WWII. Clearly, Putin has different priorities than most of the rest of humanity, and he seems ready to start (accelerate really, as Russia has been fueling conflict in the Ukraine for several years now) a potentially catastrophic war. Just remember, if you plan to disagree with him, and are planning a visit, pack your own food. Putin has a strong dislike with anyone who speaks against him, or whom he perceives as a threat. I’d also suggest you study some history, and see just how extraordinarily difficult it is to build a democracy from autocracy, especially overnight. Sadly, it’s much easier to go the other way. And Russia, with perhaps the very brief exception of the Kerensky provisional government, which lasted all of six months, has never really known anything but autocracy, usually brutal, tyrannical, totalitarian autocracy. While the ideology under the tsars was very different than the Soviets, the two regimes were both totalitarian autocracies, brutal to their own people. But that’s what Putin wants, and apparently, he doesn’t want any former Soviet republics, now independent sovereign nations, to enjoy the blessings of liberty either. Even if that means plunging Europe into another war, which could easily escalate. Do I have to spell out what that could mean? We’re you around during the Cold War? I was, and I remember what it was like living under a nuclear Sword of Damocles.

[@johncronin9540]

@@kimseniorb How do you feel about his successor, the ex-KGB spy whose critics have a way of dying, and who might plunge Europe into another war? Given those two options, neither of them great, I’ll take the “peasant with a huge drinking problem.” I’ll grant you the drinking problem, but what’s wrong with being a peasant, or someone of humble birth? I’m afraid Tsar Nicholas II isn’t available, and he was a bigger disaster than Yeltsin was. So much for “royalty”.

[@thenoobgamerboi69]

Boris Yeltsin - The making of a Drunk

[@Dadaf1]

I’m sure you’d be the type to talk shit out of your Dacha huh?

[@remy-]

😂

[@christopheroshea9799]

The drinker on the make

[@F5Storm1]

He was probably the best leader Russia ever had.

[@christopheroshea9799]

@@F5Storm1 that means you are politically inept Stupid, or live in a hole on Mars

[@RKLCan]

Though extremely fault filled, both Yeltsin and Gorbachev were very unique for their times. Gorbachev - a progressive democrat. Yeltsin - an activist. Comparetively Vladimir Putin is a throwback to the USSR - a thug, dictator and oligarch

[@universalconquest4447]

You do not see the World for what it really is. First of, every nation on this planet is an oligarchy. Secondly, Russia needs a dictator because nations that have perfected modern-day colonization such as the US, UK, and France, use 'democracy' as a tool to acquire political power and impact economic decision-making in independent countries by financing parties, grooming 'leaders' in their Western universities, and swaying public opinion via the 'free' media aka propaganda. Russian nationalists and Soviet patriots especially ex-KGB are well aware of these subversive warfare tactics. You on the other not so much. You lack the mental capacity to peel back layers of information, read between the lines, and connect the dots.

[@jatinsinghyadav5941]

@@universalconquest4447 bullshit

[@universalconquest4447]

@@jatinsinghyadav5941 Shitbull

[@Mattz1995]

@@universalconquest4447 completely correct, but I also feel some parts of your latter point apply to russia as well, just not as effective these days.

[@s.vanheijnsbergen9644]

34:34 That's a weird ass painting in the background.

[@BlackHeart-B53]

Оның ең үлкен үлесі - барлығына коммунизмнің артықшылығына куә болуға көмектесу

[@eliseogarcia1024]

I wasn't aware of he was an engineer.

[@arty5876]

The majority of Soviet officials were engineers

[@brinjoness3386]

he carried a hammer a couple of times and added extra sand and water into the concrete mix to buy vodka

[@ludakapkina9308]

People in USSR during Brezhnev era did not be divided by past and roots.

[@xres1329]

So what does this have to do with the price of the bread?

[@dungeon_masster.]

достижения Ельцина: 1 переход к капитализму. 2 появился свободный выезд заграницу. 3 появился свободный выбор места жительства и рода деятельности ошибки Ельцина: 1 наивность по отношению к враждебному западу и односторонние уступки включавшие в себя вывод войск из восточной европы. 2 следование деструктивным рекомендациям МВФ которые привели к дефолту в 1998. 3 отсутствие контроля за инвестиционными фондами во время приватизации, которые за собранные ваучеры покупали акции, а затем распродавали их бандитам за копейки. 4 вывод войск из чечни в 1996. Ельцин стал президентом благодаря тому что он был решительным и не боялся брать на себя ответственность за провалы и неудачи. Горбачев же наоборот был слабохарактерным и не подходил на роль лидера. Ельцин не зря выбрал Путина в качестве своего приемника, так как он увидел в Путине себя в молодости, таким же сильным и решительным человеком

[@terryvarta9306]

One of the best Soviet leaders. Its a pity his dreams didn't come true but the man believed in democracy

[@darkdragon5520]

He’s the reason why Russia and Eastern European countries are doing so badly. He sold everything to oligarchs who now rule Russia.

[@thespamdance311]

He didn’t at all. He crushed parliament when it disagreed with him.

[@inutsuki5276]

lmao what are you talking about??? he was the opposite of "democratic" I doubt that you'd agree going against the votes of the parliament AND the wishes of the people is "democratic"

[@dynamo_spade]

🙏🏻 can anyone please provide me with the song title of the end credits song ?

[@karolinalubienska7896]

Most underrated and unappreciated Russian politician. Yeltsin's presidency was the only moment in the history of Russia of true democracy. It was the only time that their archives were open to the world. Unfortunately the years of Yeltsin's presidency were marked by global recession, in the early 90's the price of oil was low. The next president was a full fledged criminal... only now the world has finally seen for what Putin really is. Yeltsin in comparison was a man of integrity, nevermind his personal shortcomings.

[@Пальцерезка]

He was good for you while russians suffered in misery and poverty.

[@karolinalubienska7896]

@@Пальцерезка it was a time of economic turbulence as the communist system collapsed and was bankrupted, Polish suffered as well and all money went to pay bills and buy food. But it was the only time of Russian history of freedom of press, speech and thought. It is not Yeltsin's fault that at this time oil and gas were very cheap, it was then 13 dollar a barrel, at the time of Putin it was more than 100 dollar a barrel. It is not Putin's accomplishment, he took most of the profit for himself and his 'friends'', rural Russia is still poor.

[@Пальцерезка]

@@karolinalubienska7896 your country was filled with US and EU money and economic advices while we suffered with "bush chicken legs". You reap what you sow.

[@anyatirova627]

The alcoholic Yeltsin sold the country to the West, one man destroyed EVERYTHING that had been built for decades. But at that time he was dancing at some holidays in his beloved America! He unleashed a war in Chechnya, took a bunch of loans that we still cannot repay, plunged the country and people into complete chaos, disgraced us simply to the whole world in the 90s: There was no food in the shops; it was impossible to save up for anything, in an instant all your savings turned into toilet paper; crime was very high; the birth rate has fallen sharply. What is so good about it?!

[@NickolaySheitanov]

@@Пальцерезка with a Ska last name I doubt you can talk about Russian politics polaks hate Russia

[@chukchee]

Things are beginning to make more sense now...

[@theduchessofkitty4107]

This documentary should have been called, “The Revenge of the Kulak’s Grandson.”

[@philipbarker1896]

great documentary with some wonderful archive, but the effectiveness rather spoiled by mispronunciation of English narration which makes the story difficult to follow

[@BuckeyeRutabaga]

I wouldn't go as far as "spoiled" albeit some English words were in fact pronounced rather oddly but it was still a very understandable narration. As an american English speaker I had no problem understanding it at all and the "mispronunciations" that I noticed were in stark contrast to the rest of it which is indicative of an overall satisfactory delivery.

[@joemag411]

The piano intro (music) is quite the same of the song "mreyte ya mreyte" which is in the soundtrack of the movie Caramel (2007).

[@MK-gn1nz]

The country lives in fear and suspicion when leader is a spy. The country builds up when leader is an engineer.

[@klub7justin]

You know nothing about Russia

[@jonathanethaniel944]

Thank you to the man who put an end to the Soviet Union

[@earthandwind820]

Jonathan ET ...and killed 100,000’s of Russians even though there were more democratic options and alternatives to shock therapy.

[@ludakapkina9308]

Many Russian people did not know many thing about the past ...In same family could be a revolutionaries and kulaks in the past, but they all lived in USSR.

[@2prize]

russia was only 10 years old when this was made!

[@Osvaldo-tm5rc]

2prize (modern Russia) don’t forget Moscovy and Russian empire

[@user-qjxfs8]

Rurik was called to reign in 9th century BC

[@alexm566]

so Egypt is only 70 years old today in 2022? 🤣

[@Noitisnt-ns7mo]

Was Boris the one to address the remaining American POW that Russia had retained and not returned, from the long forgotten WW2?

[@mrlarry271]

He might have done some good outside the levers of being the nation's leader but his presidency was an absolute disaster. 2 percent approval rating when he left. Have never heard of one that low for any politician.

[@victorseger6044]

He is also responsible for putting Putin in office...just a little extra for that absolute disaster

[@arty5876]

Yeltsin is not to blame for the economic crisis that was in Russia in the nineties - the reason for the crisis is simple. It's just that in the USSR there was a monopoly economy where everything belonged to the state. As a result, when the USSR ceased to exist, Soviet enterprises were not capable of market competition, and lost this competition, as a result of which the Russian economy went bankrupt in the nineties, because no one bought Russian goods. Yeltsin is absolutely not to blame here. Lenin and Stalin are to blame, they built the monopolistic state-owned Soviet economy, which could not withstand market competition. As for Putin, Putin has nothing to do with economic growth in Russia - it's just that by the end of the nineties Yeltsin's market reforms were completed, and already the new, market economy of Russia, as a result of the 1998 default, also freed from debt, began to grow. At the same time, since 2000, the price of oil has risen sharply and started to break records, and the Russian economy depends on oil. And in the zero years, there was economic growth all over the world, because there was a sharp leap in technology. In the zero years, the economy grew in South America, Africa, and Asia. Russia just fell under the global trend. And Putin did not play a role here at all. We should praise Yeltsin for having carried out market reforms and built capitalism in Russia, which provided us with growth already during Putin's rule, although Putin did nothing to develop the Russian economy. Moreover, Putin's policy has rather harmed the Russian economy - Putin has nationalized many industries. There has been an increase in corruption in Russia under Putin. After all, the dictator is afraid of a conspiracy, and the dictator's power rests on the loyalty of officials and the government, which is achieved through corruption. Putin allows officials to steal, and in return they are loyal to him. Under Yeltsin, corruption was a problem that was fought. Under Putin, corruption has become a system. Putin took away our freedom of speech and took away our press. Corruption leads to the fact that business rights are not protected, because corrupt police officers close businesses or take business away from private owners. This scares investors away from the market. Under Putin, Russia's economy has become very state-owned, and the share of private owners has fallen. Putin has built a monopolized economy in Russia, fixated on a corrupt state. As a result, in the 21st century, when innovation is the most profitable way in the economy, Russia turned out to be a technologically backward country, despite the fact that trillions of rubles were invested in science during Medvedev's presidency. These trillions of rubles were simply stolen by the oligarchs. A country that doesn't really produce anything except oil and gas. The result is sad - in 2013 and 2015 there was a drop in oil prices, and a serious drop in living standards. An economic strategy that relies on chance and has no foundation. Over time, the government corrupted Putin and he got into geopolitics, which led us to war and international isolation.

[@andreafisher7799]

@Michael Hansen The UK’s PM Liz Truss 6 September 2022 - 25 October 2022 might come a close second regarding popularity rating 😂

[@andreafisher7799]

@Arty thank you for your insight

[@anEyePhil]

Спасибо за интересный фильм о Ельцине. Я видел его только в более поздние годы, чуть не упавшим и явно пьяным. Его худшей ошибкой было то, что он поддержал бывшего головореза из КГБ, который заменил его на посту президента. Thank you for this interesting film about Yeltsin. I had only ever seen him in his later years, nearly falling over and obviously drunk. His worst mistake was to support an ex-KGB thug to replace him as President.

[@user-denis-bessonov-1968]

Ельцын гулял и пил на руинах разрушенной страны. Единственным его верным действием было назначение В.В.Путина, который собирает страну обратно по крупицам.

[@Lgstaev]

Худшей ошибкой Ельцина был его приход к власти

[@Команданте]

Он был единственный, кто имел право его поставить) Поднасрал напоследок, если хотите

[@NClass468]

was he good or bad?

[@guiguox]

mostly, drunk.

[@nickycoley1]

What are ROGs?

[@jigrodrigues]

nickycoley1 rpgs maybe?

[@houseviceroy]

I don't care if hes a drunk but he did a great job of keeping russia away from going back to sovietism

[@jeremyhodge6216]

I do certainly agree with you on this 😌👌💯

[@Maximilian-Robespierre]

You mean that he destroyed Russia. We agree

[@mrcactuar8515]

Thats exactly why many westerners like him; because he was a tool, a mere puppet at the hands of the western elites.

[@ambatukam7074]

Russia was better off being communist / soviet

[@mitchie2267]

How is that working out for Russia now?

[@pandaandthegecko5480]

Bro one more Vodka pls I need moar I can quit whenever I want pleaseee -Boris Yeltsin, probably

[@jeremyhodge6216]

Too bad Russia doesn't have leaders like Yeltsin and Gorbachev anymore 🤔

[@bejakabyle]

Wow ! Yeltsin Boris was joke a drunk guy .

[@alexm566]

traitors you mean

[@NickolaySheitanov]

You mean the ones that fucked the country severely. Gorbachev himself said he regrets dissolving the union. Westerners talking bout eastern European politics just pisses me off

[@ingenuity168]

Yeltsin and Gorbachev modernized Russia.

[@greenbrickbox3392]

A weird way to say sold Russia out to western corporations, oligarchs and mafia and caused mass death through shock therapy which was only reversed by Putin

[@adamralica4968]

they destroyed it, Putin saved it

[@philjones45]

Хотя я не фанат этой музыки, все это кажется довольно банальным, это все же информативный документальный фильм, так что спасибо.

[@treetop5752]

Did yeltsin beat his schlong?

[@abhishekmhatre1554]

The more the Putin presidency drags on, the more respect I gain for Yetsin and Gobrachev

[@appledoreman]

Yeltsin, though ending up as a drunken buffoon, was at least well-intentioned, which is more than can be said for murdering thug Putin. So, the fact the former earned a (final) approval rating of 2%, as opposed to the latter's current 70% must say something about the Russian people.

[@victorseger6044]

The thing is that if there wasn't a Yeltsin.. there wouldn't be a Putin.. the world would be better off if both of them never existed..

[@BengalLancer]

Gorbachev is the Leader. He gave up power. He didn't reimpose soviet atrocities. He was probably reluctant. But he did it.

[@joeycsk8305]

Gorbachev was a true communist

[@broadstreet21]

Leadership is extremely complex, especially in a big country like Russia. There, small government democracy is impossible - they require dictatorship or strong-man leadership, whether it's a tsar or communist regime. In the United States, democracy only worked in the early years when the population lived by the Bible.

[@DENCSER]

A kulak is not just a "rich peasant". A kulak is an oligarch farmer, an exploiter farmer. A village capitalist.

[@dos350]

I AM YELPIN' FOR YELTSIN!

[@elmatador4075]

the biggest mistake of the west was to help Russia . THey should have neutralized their military first, and made sure they never use it again against their neighbors or europe . Just what they did to Japan or Germany . it would have been the best thing for everybody

[@mohammedriadh4990]

You know they have nukes right?

[@elmatador4075]

@@mohammedriadh4990 Really ? no i didnt ! i was waiting for someone called mohamed to tell me that. In the 90s they were so broke ready to exchange a Nuke of a bag of rice .

[@brianticas7671]

@@mohammedriadh4990 thats true but russia was really weak after germany attacked them in ww2. Russia won but suffered a hell of a lot. If usa wanted to, they would have pounced on a weakened russia and took advantage of it. Usa let russia breathe though.

[@losenism]

yeltsin was to the ussr what trump is to the usa, the simularities are asounding

[@allthewarsintheworld1823]

Egil Sellgren Trump isn't even in office yet dipshit

[@mariusmatei2946]

Gamer1Wolf you Are Delusional!!!

[@TheCheesyguy]

Egil Sellgren Trump is chaotic he lacks diplomacy and is an isolationist

[@hornpub267]

BOTH WERE CONTROL BY THE SATANIC BANKERS

[@PekingKhan]

Trump wasn’t a drunk

[@carlosponce2470]

Today Russians are paying the price of yeltsin’s sins with their own lives in the Ukrainian fields 😔

[@arghaghosh365]

Gorbachev allowed Boris to grow and broked USSR. Now Boris appointed Putin who is trying now to become a key player like Russia was in USSR

[@sylviadailey9126]

Wow. I wondered who Boris Yeltsin is. I am fascinated by the Soviet Union.. This documentary is very interesting. Russia did succeed in getting rid of an oppressive monarchy. It succeeded in forming some kind of solcialism. Its form was totalitarian communism. There are two downsides of this. One is that communism becomes inefficient without the invisible hand of capitalism. This is where the beaureucracy comes in. Another problem is that the government goes too far in overpowering the authority of business. It becomes another kind of tyranny. Stalin was particularly bad. I see that in the video there were still issues after his death. I have ideas on how to fix the Soviet Union. Socialism is a good system. So it is better to stick with it. It is better than capitalism, which has its own problems. The Soviet Union should definitely not make the tsars return. Monarchy is the freaking worst. There are two changes. One is that socialism should be toned down a bit so it isn't communism anymore. That is so there is buissiness or some other method to distribute goods and services efficiently. I am even wondering if a community can vote on what projects that should be funded on. Every person gets one vote. For example, one can decide on whether to use funds on an apartment, building, extra food, luxury goods or something else. I am not sure how well this would work. It is just a thought. Another change is to make the government have more freedom. Yeltson is a cool guy. He was quite the maverick. Yet that was what the Soviet Union needed. The building project were impressive. People gathering together to build new apartment buildings. They also build houses in the country. Those houses are very nice for Russian peasants. They even resemble middle class uburb houses in the United States. Yeltson gives a nice speech about food. The video said this was a huge departure from socialism or communism. Then I am cheering, "Yeah! This is how socialism is done." That is different perspectives. Housing and food benefits all the people instead of the elite. So that does seem socialist to me. The thing about capitalism and socialism is that they do form a spectrum. No country has to be stuck with one or the other. As a communist country, the Soviet Union was on the extreme end of the socialist side. So it needs to go towards the capitalist side a little bit. There was some demand for housing and food. So it is good for Yelttson to supply in some way. Breaking through the red tape of beurocracy is worth it, if he can get stuff done. It was great to see the people working together for the building projects. They work on thier own. They did do this with freedom while also benefiting all the people. There is both ocialsm and freedom. Yes. Oh Russia, you were so close. You were so close to becoming a better nation. Kropotkin would be proud.

[@sylviadailey9126]

Boring Yeltson later becomes a politician. It is cool that this documentary has footage and even interviews with Gorbechev. Gorbachev and Yeltson both want to reform the Soviet Union and fix the problems. So they could become allies. There is a split though as Yelson is the more radical leader. It is wierd for the documentary to call the Communist Party conservitive. It sort of makes sense in context. However solcialism in general is a liberal system. If anybody in Russia is conservative, it is definitely the czars. I argue that Putin is way more conservative than the communists, even though he was in power much later. It is great that the Soviet Union became democratic. There were elections. There were multiple parties. That is amazing. That brings more freedom that the nation desperately needed. Yelson was a leader for the people, and it is so genuine. I like that in a leader. Populism is awesome. It was brilliant that Yelson calls out the beaurcratic communists for being an oppressor of the people. That is cleaver. When communism gets too authoritarian, it stray far away from the idiot of Marx. The documentary suddenly ended. I wonder what happened next. What did Yeltson do after leaving office. Is he still alive?

[@Aristotelezz]

All the Russians here criticizing Yeltsin, would've kept their mouths completely shut, under all leaders before him.

[@earthandwind820]

Aristotelezz During the 1996 “elections”, American advisors advised Yeltsin to essentially reinstate state tv. The national channel was destroying him and our American advisors told him to control them, since it was funded by the government. Plenty of journalists were assassinated during his time as president, but yes, because it was a little more free than during Soviet times, let’s ignore his authoritarianism.

[@earthandwind820]

Further, considering the fact he implemented shock therapy and destroyed Russia’s economy, as our American puppet... common Russian people have every right to hate him. Russia endured some of the worst economic times in its history despite there being more democratic options. It’s funny how this comment is coming from someone clearly on the Russia colluded train. Hypocrite.

[@PrimericanIdol]

Before....and since.

[@ChunkySoupfortheSoul]

This isn't about burgers or Russians. I just noticed.

[@philipjameskalavritinos6137]

ALLEGEDLY: "THE MAKING, DON' T PUSH, OF LEADERS, IS COMPLIMENTED, VIA, THE BIBLE TERMS, TO KNOW, "TO KNOW THY ENEMY', "ROLES& ROLLS", TOO, MAYBE ACTED OUT, TO FIND THE DESPOTIC VOLITIONS REGIMES, WHICH, ARE PROPHESIZED, "TO RULE, VIA, NUMBERS EXCHANGES"."

[@redkelly1188]

Hollywood should make a movie about how great Russia was, maybe in time it will be a great country again one day The people need better leaders and the money to be spent on the infrastructure Not the war.

[@johnweerasinghe4139]

Wow... based on the information in this video it was Yeltsin that destroyed Communism in Russian by :- 1. Initiating the vote for Russia to withdraw from the USSR. 2. Resigning from the Communist Party. 3. Winning the Russian Presidency. President Reagan and the US take credit for winning the Cold War . This is false. This seems to be Yeltsins battle against the Soviet Bureaucracy and winning. What's important is that as in Sverdolosk and Moscow it was the Russian people that made his rise and power possible. This means the people of Russia supported Yeltsin's battle against the Communist Party and its arcane, conservative and inefficient methods......nothing wrong with what Yelsin did ....to me ....he seems to have been listening to the Russian people and had some serious courage to take on the Party. Wow!

[@mirnamm3590]

Yeltsin the founding father of Russian democracy? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

That would be Gorbachev

[@TimeMakerDotPH]

​@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 That would be Georgy Lvov.

[@knkjkjn]

Why are you hating on the guy ? He saved Russia from communism and brought democracy or am I wrong ?

[@KKTR3]

just viewing Russian could not have got from where it was To where you are today without the defender of Gorbachev revolution ,there had to be steeping stones

[@yaquishredtastic_9867]

Youre way wrong, he basically handed the economy to the Russian mafia, shot down the life expectancy rate to a worse standard even lower than that of world war 2 and removed all programs that helped maintain the population...crime, prostitution, and drug abuse became problems after his"reforms"

[@Yu.Harrison]

Yeltsin saved his alcoholic soul but not Russians. He is one of the communist party alcoholic.

[@TheChidopuntocom]

It is very complicated, all started since the reforms implemented by Gorbachev. And Yeltsin is the scapegoat. When he became presidente of the RSFSR, there were already many problems. The thing is that he stop controlling the prices and subsiding food. So inflation accelerated like a balloon. The problem with Gorbachev and Yeltsin was that they were improvisong. They didn't have a clear plan to make a transicion from socialism to capitalism, although they encharged a 500 days program to make the transition to the economist Grigory Yavlinski, which included privatizing the state-owned companies. But that was irreal, because no russian had the power of acquisition to buy them. In the end, yes, all ended in corruption and the creation of oligarchs who were able to take advantage of the situation. But the catastrophe is not entirely his fault, because since the era of stagnation with Brezhnev, production was already falling, the shortages were common, the distribution system was terrible, there were many problems with the transition a.k.a as Perestroika, because there were many laws especially from Stalin era that made it very hard for foreign currency to be used in the USSR or for foreign companies to invest in it. For example, there was an Austrian enterprise, which wanted to build an ice cream factory in Crimea, but they couldn't because of a law from Stalin era which stated that a foreign company could only invest in the country with the permission of the Ministry of Finance or another case was from the factory of Uralmash, which builds equipment for heavy industry, so they wanted to become partners with a Japanese enterprise who was very interested to invest in Uralmash 80 million dollars and equip it with the latest computer systems and technologies, but the deal didn't happen, because the government would take away more than 75% of hard currency from the company. So in Yeltsin era the time bomb exploded and he had to accept a rain of shit and be the scapegoat to blame for everything, along with Gorbachev. And again, also because their incapibility of an efficient planning in transition economic politics.

[@victorseger6044]

He put the current asswipe where he is today ... That would be Putin whatever good you think Yeltsin did is all null and void putting a guy that wants the Soviet Union back including the countries that left the Soviet Union..

[@dreamermagister8561]

Then he became a drunk?

[@SquinteyedSniper]

Shadow Bringer yea like. where is that part, only an other 5 years

[@faith5563]

Vodka is a Russian staple

[@alex_1984_is_here]

He was Russian “Biden”

[@CrisisMoon7]

4:24pm Jan 11 24 Thursdays 7:54pm Jan 20 24 Saturday

[@iliapopovich]

Eltsin was a genius. He led the biggest and richest country in this world during one of the most disastrous moments in the history of Russia and they survived. Now is Putin to conduct the show and it works perfectly.

[@iliapopovich]

@@highnourishment4751 It was the Soviet Union.

[@joeycsk8305]

Yeltsin was a Joke

[@victorseger6044]

Largest ? Yes richest ? Absolutely not

[@iliapopovich]

@@victorseger6044 It's the richest on natural resources -73 trillion $. The US -$43 tr.

[@KelemKelem]

Congo?

[@alexanderglazman3209]

Maybe the voice of the woman that will marry me is heard in this video.

[@PrzekornaDusza]

Ельцин в жизни был воздержанным, не пил водки, хотел стать электриком, как Лех Валенса. Всем привет из Польши.

[@ИльяПашинцев-к4в]

Да, конечно! Ельцин был алкоголиком, пропил всю страну! Он предатель!

[@dutArkham]

16:00 you have can your apartment if you build it yourself? hell yeah

[@edyr]

I don't quite understand.. Wish Mikhail Gorbachev got a little more than some nice clothes...Peace Russia

[@knightrook4264]

18:00: "...in the nearby street, they saw houses with city comforts, and they saw people lived differently,, and modern, and the rumor went on, 'if others live that way, why would I keep living so badly." That is all anyone needs to understand the reason why the Soviet system failed, and why other socialist systems will never succeed in the long term. "WHY would I." "I", meaning myself and my family. Self-interest/selfishness. Consumerism. Greed, if it pleases you to use that often abused term. You who seek a Marxist Utopia ought to think about the natural human trait of envy, and how it is impossible to satisfy everyone, when everyone FEELS that they are entitled to the material comforts of other more privileged people. Be a useless idiot for the Lost Cause of Marxism, if that pleases you. The capitalists have already buried you, and you don't even know it.

[@nickycoley1]

43:43 Nikolai Veluev

[@MohamedMagdi790]

18:52 Putin?

[@aj-qm2on]

No, that's not Putin.

[@treetop5752]

I figure Putin is the love child of Yeltsin and Gorbachev

[@staceycolangelo8940]

Oh come on, where's the rest? What about his presidency?

[@audreydaleski1067]

He is the one? Who took 12 billion of IMF money and divided it up. . .

[@nahumhabte6210]

The destroyer of a nation is better title

[@zachyoung73]

What's going on with the narration? It's full of mispronounced words and sentences that sound like they were translated word-for-word.

[@Marc816]

Boris = good old boy. Too bad that he couldn't be the US President.

[@getsugatenshou6072]

if he was US president the americans would pee on his grave

[@Hoyllandgeorge-qc5uz]

Boris Yeltsin electrical engineer who change Gorbachev socialismus to capitalimus!👍

[@justinrad5073]

God bless Russia 🇷🇺

[@treetop5752]

SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦

[@importedkim6488]

​@@treetop5752Сало героинам

[@identification133]

According to this documentary,, he is the one responsible for the current day Russia.

[@mwendapoleee]

Wow he was handsome ooh my ooh my he didn't look russian Rip old boy ,you left us putin makin alot of trouble!

[@darkoratic2339]

Yeltsin was one of the worst things happend to Russia At least the Russian Flag from 1991-1993 had the best design in my opinion

[@anandhuradhakrishnan4454]

❤❤❤

[@colinbeck1285]

Yeltsin mentored Putin.

[@jonlangley1010]

The real reason we are where we are today? (08/04/2022) . A kulak betrayer earlier on. A lier ever since, until his way too late drunken death.

[@NickolaySheitanov]

Tf is a kulak

[@LarryScott-e7q]

I was told i was a Yeltsin and was adopted and i was also a Ferrari and a black but im being attacked by federal and state agents they have tried to chemical assainate me

[@SunnyFLBoy]

20:23 Selenski?

[@MedievalKnecht]

25:00

[@vasadodenc7814]

"THE MAKING OF A CLOWN"

[@jennifermarieherron8089]

I hear babble in the United States news. No love for it. No passion.