Even as I scribble this rubbish, leader writers the world over are penning (which is so much better than keyboarding) sympathetic obituaries of the man who stood on top of the tank to defy the coup, then used them to blow the White House apart, before failing to get out of the airplane because he was too inebriated.
This founder of democracy was so universally loved that his popularity hit a miserly single digit level in early 1997, thus causing him to strike a faustian pact with, inter alia, Khordokhovsky and the ultra-liberal democrat Anatoly "tons of cash" Chubais. With the economy effectively hocked for absolutely nothing July 3rd 1997 turned in to a nightmare only for SWMBO (it was (and still is) her birthday) whilst the rest of us had another 13 months to ruin our livers' and regret our failure to sell out earlier. If you can remember post-election Moscow in 1997, you weren't here.
Stability was the same policy being announced two months in a row, which beat the number of consecutive months which government employees were paid. Fun it was, nascent democracy it was not. And worst of all it laid the groundwork for the Fifth Directorate Thugs to return.
The embalmers are happy though; he has already thoroughly pickled himself.
This founder of democracy was so universally loved that his popularity hit a miserly single digit level in early 1997, thus causing him to strike a faustian pact with, inter alia, Khordokhovsky and the ultra-liberal democrat Anatoly "tons of cash" Chubais. With the economy effectively hocked for absolutely nothing July 3rd 1997 turned in to a nightmare only for SWMBO (it was (and still is) her birthday) whilst the rest of us had another 13 months to ruin our livers' and regret our failure to sell out earlier. If you can remember post-election Moscow in 1997, you weren't here.
Stability was the same policy being announced two months in a row, which beat the number of consecutive months which government employees were paid. Fun it was, nascent democracy it was not. And worst of all it laid the groundwork for the Fifth Directorate Thugs to return.
The embalmers are happy though; he has already thoroughly pickled himself.
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