Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The Good Russian Boris

On August 18, 1991 Boris Yeltsin and his backers was under siege at the Moscow parliament. The old commies were staging an armed coup to oust Gobarchov's successor. He drank a bottle of vodka and confronted the rebel soliders in tanks. They listened to his passionate plea from Rodina and did not fire on the besieged reformers.

What a hero.

To hear his speech, please go to this URL

https://web.viu.ca/davies/H102/Yelstin.speech.1991.htm

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