Monday, April 23, 2007

Yeltsin has died, and somehow it's really hard to believe, and it's sad, too. Hard to believe they are mortals, you know. I felt the same kind of shock when Milosevic died, though there was no sadness at all then.

Yeltsin sat at a tennis game in Luzhniki just a few days ago, I've read. He was really good at it. (CORRECTION: Actually, he wasn't there, and it got people - Russian fans - worried. Sorry for confusion.)

Besides seeing him a few times at Kremlin Cup, I also bumped into him in spring 1987, when he was still a minor politician - but already considered progressive. He was visiting Ramenki then, a neighborhood in the south-west of Moscow - a really tall guy, sticking out of the crowd that gathered around him. Twenty years ago. We really liked him then.

RIP.

4 comments:

  1. that bastard is responsible for the death of million of russian people, the west always appreciate those who bring doom to russia, the one think I dont like about Putin is that, that he did not hang Yelzin.

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  2. I need to read more I guess. I thought that Yeltsin helped put Putin in office. Did you say Million of Russian People ? Where, when, how ?

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  3. Yes, please

    males's life expactency dropped between 1989 and 1994 from 64 to 59 years, if thats not genocide whats then? http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/308/6928/553

    this is comparable to what the ukranians call "holodomor" "The average life expectancy for Ukrainians in 1932-1933 dropped to 7 years for men and 10 years for women"
    http://www.mfa.gov.ua/canada/en/publication/content/8254.htm

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  4. A friend of mine gave me a Yeltsin bio. It was a hard read for me. I came away from it thinking that he worked hard and earned everything he got in life. That's pretty cool. He also liked to play volleyball. I think he was a guy I would have liked to have known.

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