Boris Yeltsin dead

maycm · Post by **maycm** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:55 pm

Continuing coverage...

Dead

Dead

Dead

Still Dead

er....that's it.

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:07 pm

It's sad to look back at a time like this to when he visited the holy land as a 68 year old man in 2000 :
https://www.guardian.co.uk/yeltsin/Story ... 51,00.html
"Yeltsin enjoys life in the slow lane"

Though can't help feeling he was responsible for allowing Russia / USSR to be raped by the wild-west version of the "free market".

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:10 pm

They have to keep checking him from time to time because of the muscle-memory twitches that cause his corpse to appear to be ordering another vodka.

Post by **eefanincan** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:15 pm

I hadn't heard that he'd passed away. I didn't follow his politics too closely, but he seemed to be one of the more laid back Russian leaders. If I remember correctly he and Clinton seemed to get on well.

Post by **faceless** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:19 pm

he was a puppet leader if ever there was one. I'm not bothered either way about him dying - he was an old guy who had his time.

Post by **Skylace** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:35 pm

eefanincan wrote:I hadn't heard that he'd passed away. I didn't follow his politics too closely, but he seemed to be one of the more laid back Russian leaders. If I remember correctly he and Clinton seemed to get on well.

I hadn't heard anything about it either.

IRiSHMaFIA · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:01 pm

nekokate wrote:They have to keep checking him from time to time because of the muscle-memory twitches that cause his corpse to appear to be ordering another vodka.

good one