For Lenin the party was everything, For Yeltsin party was everything

@cy_wareye7395

2 жыл бұрын

good joke:)

@BigBoss-rw4mn

2 жыл бұрын

Copied comment from another video. Grow up kiddo

@ruturajshiralkar5566

2 жыл бұрын

For Lenin: Party is my Life For Yeltsin: Party-ing is my Life

@notevencalm

2 жыл бұрын

Fax

@sneaky3384

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigBoss-rw4mn no life goes around comments finding the funniest one to make fun at? grow up prepubescent kiddo

my father hates Yeltsin because my dad was born in 1980. and therefore, in the army in 1998. sent my dad to serve in ..... Chechnya

@MrsOliva

4 ай бұрын

То же самое происходит и сейчас. Само общество одобряет это. И с этим ничего не поделаешь.

He might have made many mistakes, but he did admit to them. That’s one thing you don’t see very often.

@MarkCommentates

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, a true democracy

@pianisti4562

2 жыл бұрын

So if you destroy your country's economy, shoot at the parlament with tanks, rig an ellection and cause your country's population to suffer, but admit it, it makes you a good president? Sure, the USSR wasn't perfect, but Yeltsin's Russia was a billion times worse.

@samvodopianov9399

2 жыл бұрын

@Franklin Delano Roosevelt 147 is only 150 not hundreds. Also, it was the Red Army that open fire.

@Game_with_me-r6j

2 жыл бұрын

That is what democracy should be about.

@chadzahirshah2588

2 жыл бұрын

@@pianisti4562 “Yeltsons Russia is a billion times worse” I don’t remember yeltson massacaring 2 million of my Pashtun/Tajik brotherhood in Afghans in just 9 years like the soviets did.

BBC continues to rewrite history.

@kakolykia

7 жыл бұрын

where exactly?

@MaplePatriot

6 жыл бұрын

kakolykia this man may have said goodbye to Russia but Russia said good riddance.

@yeahohright3097

6 жыл бұрын

They're just giving his wife's perspective.

@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1

3 жыл бұрын

Dennis - No, that would be RT

@kakolykia

3 жыл бұрын

@Franklin Delano Roosevelt downturn of Russian GDP is firmly connected to the worldwide oil prices. This proccess started in 70's Soviet Union.

I love this one. The drunk handed over a functioning Russian state to Putin...The country at that moment in time was literally sold out, lost its independence. Oligarchy got established heavily and exists until now unfortunately. People almost lost everything, Country was at war with its southern territories, the army completely demolished. Should I keep going?

@theslavicguy485

2 жыл бұрын

Yes keep going!!

@xres1329

2 жыл бұрын

You indeed should be GOING!❗🎯

@PMNS1995

2 жыл бұрын

This aged well, but handed over? I don't know, Putin was ex-KGB so who knows what happened in those elections, Yeltsin died two years later. Putin poisoned journalists and opposition characters like Navalny, yet he always won elections somehow...

@kyrileis4351

2 жыл бұрын

Let's get the facts straight. Russia had over 20 oligarches under Yeltsin, now there only 8 remaining The Russian economy was completely crippled and it only changed when Vladimir Putin became the President So, if you think about this logically, Putin has changed Russia from an economic depression to the 11th largest in the world, under yeltsin, it was the 23rd largest, despite being a country with over 135mil population (at the time). Yeltsin also crafted the Population crisis almost all soviet countries see now days. Putin has regained rightful Russian terrorities, fixed the economy, armed and securitized the state, compared to Yeltin, who was too drunk to do anything.

@IamDoru1

2 жыл бұрын

@@kyrileis4351 Putin is a war criminal, and he only cares to fill his own pockets along with his oligarch buddies. Slava Ukraini

Yeltsin had a great opportunity to be a truly great statesmen and leader of his own country unfortunately he squandered it and allowed corruption and mafia rule to take hold of his country, and became exactly what he criticized, an authoritarian. He bombarded the Parliament because they wouldn't bend to his will and stole the election in 1996, and those authoritarian tactics helped pave the way for a KGB goon like Putin. His failure to deliver good to his people and squandering of a great opportunity is one of the great tragedies of history IMO.

@brianticas7671

2 жыл бұрын

Russia always had bad leaders. Ivan the terrible, stalin, boris yeltsin, putin now. Gorbachev wasnt a bad person but he somewhat couldnt stop what happened in the 80s. But extract him. Russia just has shitty leaders.

@astralisranger517

2 жыл бұрын

He still was good enough to resign and acknowledge his failure. Wonder when Putin is going to do the same?

@alienbsg

2 жыл бұрын

@@mratkins2611 Lenin didn't lead his country into disaster unlike Yeltsin.

@Joker129

2 жыл бұрын

@@astralisranger517 u were right about everything except for that that putin is a kgb goon

@Joker129

2 жыл бұрын

@@mratkins2611 lol putin is nothing like Hitler or stalin and yeltsin is nothing like lenin.

Most Russian hate him in Russia today to what he did to their country.

@Dr1MaR

6 ай бұрын

I'd say everyone that has lived in the 90s. No one could ever say life was great during those times

@WraithTheSlayer

4 ай бұрын

90s were not any better in any ex-communist East Europe. Honestly ... those of use who had parents to live thru or lived in those times know better. West will never trully understand how communism was or it was after. One month ago you were communist next month you live in freedom. Some of the countries after 30+ years after are still struggling. We have new generations coming thus faith is in them to truly stomp the old soviet/communist mentality.

BBC telling fairytales...

I would like to ask BBC a direct question. Seriously are you ok??

@erozionzeall6371

2 жыл бұрын

It’s one of the clearest examples of how the Western is purely propaganda.

@user-ig7xi1zi3n

2 жыл бұрын

@@erozionzeall6371 dictatorship propaganda is not easy to get brainwashed but democratic propaganda is easy to get brainwashed because people in democratic society tends to think that everything they involved is based on “democracy”…which is now used by many western politicians to fool their people

Boris was a drunk 🍺🥃🍷🍸

dude destroyed russia and now he is the hero of bbc

@cainadanilo9145

29 күн бұрын

Western midea 101, never remember declassified documents

He had a 2 percent approval rating at the end. Made the USSR look good in comparison. Had he not left might as well have hung that red flag over the Kremlin again. Putin might be authoritarian but the Russian people see that as better than what they endured under this man.

@slickrick2420

2 жыл бұрын

USSR was better, with or without a comparision

@xres1329

2 жыл бұрын

Majority wants authoritarians. The majority is wrong but it`s majority. No surprise! It`s quality vs. quantity again and again. Russians were not OK then-Yeltsin WAS.✝❗

@xres1329

2 жыл бұрын

Russians at that time were behaving, thinking, feeling like a boxer just before fainting from the blow. That was NOT CLEAR mind-Regardless who was the tzar. 😱

@karanagarwal9256

2 жыл бұрын

@@slickrick2420 yeah, good in some utopian galaxy

@pangerlenis4569

2 жыл бұрын

@@slickrick2420 Only for psychopaths who don't care about millions of dead.

You might say anything about Putin especially in regard to his recent invasion of Ukraine, but if one thing that president Yeltsin should get credit for is appointing Putin as his successor, because he literally saved Russia from an immenent collapse

@brianticas7671

2 жыл бұрын

Putin did do good things but sadly its about to turn into bullshit and all turn into negative. Putin has became public enemy number 1 to the west and has made russians live in poverty now. So everything good putin did is now gone.

@syrupsnake302

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@Dan-Martin

Жыл бұрын

Why do you think the west loved Yeltsin and hates Putin(Even before Ukraine).

@QuenzaDuvalier509

Жыл бұрын

True story

@andrewyuyoungearn2799

8 ай бұрын

true

Yelsin destroyed the soviet union and Rússia, and BBC called him democrátic. Hahahahah

@JF-bv6vc

3 жыл бұрын

Can you really expect much from an entity that is composed of uninformed professional liars?

@Anonim-bl1et

3 жыл бұрын

Do you like to be slave ?

@lan8801

3 жыл бұрын

@@Anonim-bl1et Boris Yeltsin literally shot up the Duma

@user-zw9ez7wj8r

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anonim-bl1et it seems ur consciousness is fixed on slaves, muricard, not surprised tho

@leonsong3284

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-zw9ez7wj8r Ok Russian bot go embrace the Union

"I ask forgiveness" Christ, my heart breaks at those words....

@slavicemperor8279

2 жыл бұрын

He shouldn't get any forgiveness from anyone

@russiasvechenaya58

2 жыл бұрын

Why?

@henriklarsen8193

2 жыл бұрын

@@russiasvechenaya58 Few admit failure. Fewer still had to handle a crumbling empire like he did. I wish more politicians would show this level of humanity.

@Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here

Жыл бұрын

@@henriklarsen8193 it’s not failure though. It’s calculated and manipulative tyranny and he’s proud of it. Yeltsin is directly responsible for annexation and invasion of Ukrainian territories

@lennarthagen3638

Жыл бұрын

Putin would never ever say something like this

Gorbachev was legues ahead of this man.

@BeezyNgeezY-ul1nu

3 жыл бұрын

The fact that Yeltsin admitted in his resignation speech "something we thought would be simple turned out to be terribly hard" HMM O RLY

@riley4198

2 жыл бұрын

@@Account13111 Gorbachev meant well. The fall of the Soviet Union was inevitable.

@wederMaxim

Жыл бұрын

Yeltsin is a direct successor of Gorbachev's policy.

@notvergingai1053

6 ай бұрын

​@@riley4198 The soviet union could have survived if Gorbachev perestroika was successful and had they implemented mix economy just like China did

He did nothing for the country

@edhiepitz

4 жыл бұрын

He introducing neoliberalism that bankrupting russia

@edhiepitz

3 жыл бұрын

@Brady Fries so democracy is better than well being of the people?

@edhiepitz

3 жыл бұрын

@Franklin Delano Roosevelt democracy of oligarchy

@edhiepitz

3 жыл бұрын

@Brady Fries like what happened to george floyd ?

@brianticas7671

Ай бұрын

Believe it or not but Boris did a lot by handing Putin the presidency. Look at how well Putin has performed with Russia. Boris did a lot for russia.with that decision.

BBC as always trying to fool its audience with its propaganda. Hilarious seriously...

Boris came into power for the unlimited vodka

@JosephStalin-sv5lm

Ай бұрын

And he got that even after leaving power

That fact that he even acknowledged that he made mistakes is INCONCEIVABLE from American politicians.

@brrrrrrrr8793

2 жыл бұрын

Obama has called Libya his worst mistake

@ZackFrisbee

2 жыл бұрын

@@brrrrrrrr8793 But not Syria, and Yemen, and Somalia I guess 😝 and any other enemies of Israel and Saudi Arabia. Did he ever apologize for Fast and Furious? or what Snowden and Assange uncovered?

@brrrrrrrr8793

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZackFrisbee I still disproved your point… and what was all about it

@ZackFrisbee

2 жыл бұрын

@@brrrrrrrr8793 The fact that one politician out of thousands coyly admitted after the fact that maybe he made one wrong decision, and he didn’t show any remorse for it essentially.

@brrrrrrrr8793

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZackFrisbee Also Angela Merkel admitted to mistakes she made and even Collin Powell has admitted that he regretted the Iraq war afterwards. And most politicians don’t admit their mistake no matter of their origin

The Man Who's Destroyed USSR and Russia 😈

@andreimapper5841

3 жыл бұрын

@Brady Fries no u.

@andreimapper5841

3 жыл бұрын

@Brady Fries Go away. This isn't the place for you.

@andreimapper5841

3 жыл бұрын

@Brady Fries America killed more.

@andreimapper5841

3 жыл бұрын

@Brady Fries Your facts come straight from the garbage; that's also your iq.

@andreimapper5841

3 жыл бұрын

@Brady Fries You can fuck off.

His lovely corrupt wife

Borris yeltsin had a good beginning. But towards the end of his teanure the russian population wanted to go in a different direction.

@Deducklo

7 жыл бұрын

ray bon he was never good. He ruined the country by making Russia capitalist from communism. The change was to big for a short time. He was an alcoholic and an embarrassment for Russia. Putin had to kiss his ass to become president and when he did. He arrested 3 politicians that where on the side of Borris, for corruption and rigging elections.

@raybon7939

7 жыл бұрын

The introduction of capitalisim from communism was to fast. I can agree with that. The rest I also agree. To change a gigantic industrialized nations economy over night, looking back. May not have been the brightest thing. However Russia adapted and today western Russia is doing exceptional. Central and east does lag behind.

@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977

6 жыл бұрын

in any case the whole russia is much better now than under Yeltsin and the USSR.

@FlatEarthKiller

3 жыл бұрын

@@raybon7939 go to gulag Don’t think capitalist ideas

@chrislouis7913

2 жыл бұрын

@@Deducklo but just have a look at Eastern Europe. There wasn’t really any leaders that turned their communist country into a democratic one without huge economic blows. I don’t blame Yeltsin for what happened, it was just a wrong time to be president. When Putin took over the country was pretty much rock bottom, so he didn’t really have to do much to bring the country up from there

If almost every enemy of Russia like him, how in the actual fuck could he be a good president for Russia then?

@Deducklo

7 жыл бұрын

Adrian Arias Coronel he was the worst leader. An embarrassment for the Russians. Borris did what USA told him to do

@brianticas7671

2 жыл бұрын

@@Deducklo because usa was always a bit more powerful than ussr or russia. Idk why they say ussr was equal to usa. It wasnt. Usa had more $$$$ than ussr and russia now. Ussr or russia had more weapons. By a bit. But the dollar never loses value. On top of that democracy is better than communism. So usa was always over russia or ussr.

@ultra-papasmurf

Жыл бұрын

@@brianticas7671 USSR and USA were rivals although it slowly became imbalanced, USSR was still able to keep its neck above the water no mater what NATO tried to throw at it. Yeltsins Russia was a ineffective oligarchy that killed its last chance at democracy in '93 and its last chance at super-powerdom when he ripped apart what was left of the new union treaty

@Comrade_Ulyanov

2 ай бұрын

He was never the best, he was the worst in Russian history

I think Yeltsin did legit try. He just had a LOT on his plate.

Interesting, into what Vladimir Putin has turned Russia to, in contrast to what Yeltsin had envisioned as radiant, wealthy and civilised Russia.

@excelsior1896

2 жыл бұрын

Throughout years, no matter who lead Russia and no matter what the people wen through, the people were always civilised and that in itself proves just how much Russia is actually civilised and will continue to be.

@underdogtv2855

2 жыл бұрын

@@tore0203 Even if a new president enters Russia foreign policy remains the same Yeltsin was also not accepting to NATO expansion.

@aaditrangnekar

2 жыл бұрын

yeltsin was the reason the once great USSR was dissolved into russia

@dilangunaratne2863

2 жыл бұрын

Yeltsin divided his country into pieces

@ZackFrisbee

2 жыл бұрын

Hahhaa spoken like a true American. Bic Macs and lousy TV sitcoms are the pinnacles of civilization according to you.

That second term in office was definitely not “won” by Gospodin Yeltsin.

@ttjuicer5916

Жыл бұрын

poor commie zyuganov

Why does the BBC outsource the uploading of its' videos? I have always noticed a time pattern for uploading. And it is not UK time. So where do you do it, India? One would expect constant updates during the day. But this was 17 hours ago.

It's a disaster when only a few people get to decide on the future of a whole nation. Mere posing in front of cameras isn't enough. Overall human development has to be the main concern of the rulers of any country. If they fail in that then there is no future to such countries selling of your natural resources to run the economy of a country can't be considered as development..

@regelpsalmmendoza6138

4 жыл бұрын

Werent the people during the soviet union cant vote so whats the difference then?

@karanagarwal9256

2 жыл бұрын

@Franklin Delano Roosevelt yeah that's why millions died of famine under Stalin, no freedom of speech, no freedom to stand against communist party in elections

@reformedorthodox

2 жыл бұрын

@Franklin Delano Roosevelt good so called social welfare system was putting russia back

His presedency was a shame. He was always drunk. I was a school girl at that time but I still remember how shameful it was.

I was only a few months old, almost a year old in Vladivostok, Russia before being adopted into a Ukrianian- Hungarian American family.

Everyone should thanks for him except for Russian

@Deducklo

7 жыл бұрын

-oh ko why?

@kotasbyubilieau8365

7 жыл бұрын

Rabindranad Tagor he destroyed Russia hugely

@kamtakumarthakur7073

2 жыл бұрын

@@kotasbyubilieau8365 how?

The drunk legend has fallen!

God bless the Russian people. Lord deliver the people from perverse and evil men

a day i will n forget

@alexrobinson4802

7 жыл бұрын

g b

and as the last best thing he did to russia is to bring Putin.

@Mikey-ym6ok

4 жыл бұрын

Putin the puppet?

@karanagarwal9256

2 жыл бұрын

@Franklin Delano Roosevelt 20 years and the Russian economy just recovered? Meanwhile in just 20 years, economies of China and India have taken a giant leap

@astralisranger517

2 жыл бұрын

@Franklin Delano Roosevelt brainwashed putinist

@jenkar5716

2 жыл бұрын

@@karanagarwal9256 because of oligarchs present in Russia. From Extreme communism Russia went to extreme capitalism. That's why they are suffering.

well if not for the cccp today bbc would have been telecasting in german

He was a traitor Gorbechev tired to reform the country and keep the union together he understood things had to change for the greater good of the union as a hole but yelstin was a traitor !!!!

@Anonim-bl1et

3 жыл бұрын

Gorbachev tried to reform, but didnt understand that communism is holding up only with dictatorship conditions.

@hueyfreeman1983

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anonim-bl1et I bet most Russians prefer those "dictatorship coniditions" to the "democratic" era of Yeltsin and Gorbachev

@user-wf4wp8im1n

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Anonim-bl1et lol you don't even know what you're talking about. Gorbachev tried not to reform, but to destroy (and he suceeded in that) plan economy and to start restoration of capitalism. Yakovlev and Gorbachev were both antisoviets. There were many lies about communists, nationalist and anti-soviet propaganda. That's why national crisis started to happen and then Yeltsin appeared. And like real leader, Gorbachev was too pathetic to do something about the collapse, he afraid to do anything and finally, he was one of the people, who helped to destroy the country. In 90s, when capitalism was build, everyone was fooled. There were no pensions, high salaries. There were no nothing but poverty. People lost everything: jobs, schools, hospitals, criminals gain the power and that was a mess. So don't you talk about dictatorship and throw your stupid history book written by a blind idiot who don't know shit about what was happening back in the day and what purpose to idealize capitalism and how Yeltsin and Gorbachev gave freedom to everyone while they took everything from the people. If that was the true, people in post-soviet republics wouldn't hate them so much. Many people wants their country back and living in horrible conditions.

@reviewgodusa9613

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-wf4wp8im1n he made ukrainians and poles very happy.

@user-wf4wp8im1n

2 жыл бұрын

@@reviewgodusa9613 I met different ukranians in real life lol.

Comments are truly disgusting saying he was a good man.

Boris Yeltsin features in the music video, two tribes go to war. Lol

Man Russia has been through shit all of their history. One thing I will tell you is russian people love their country. They stick together, fight together and have kept their culture. No matter what. I see Russia enjoys some stuff of the west. Music 🎶 clothing and cars. But Russia hasn't adopted sick stuff from the west yet like putin says. The women are traditional still too.

SO MANY wrong choises but the last one, damn, that is gold !

I remembered he goes to Samarkand city at 1992year

This man was such an embarrassment to his country

@karanagarwal9256

2 жыл бұрын

Was he?

@theknowledgevlogger

2 жыл бұрын

@@karanagarwal9256 Yes

@karanagarwal9256

2 жыл бұрын

@@theknowledgevlogger and Putin is making Russia reach new heights?

@theknowledgevlogger

2 жыл бұрын

@@karanagarwal9256 Read about the fall of Soviet Union

@karanagarwal9256

2 жыл бұрын

@@theknowledgevlogger yes, it was the best thing ever happened

Good old Boris !

Long live the red banner...

He was a runner boy for the west and that’s why they loved him

Best thing Yeltsin done in his life was introducing "Putin the great "

@renetto_

3 жыл бұрын

Who’s much worse than him P.s. I changed my opinion and now I’m rather neutral to then both P.s.s. KGB did not press on me lol

@user-wq5cq1op7z

3 жыл бұрын

@@renetto_, no, Putin is much better than Yeltsin. Unlike Yeltsin's era we are not clowns and idiots for whole world during Putin's reign. Our young people are not dying in wars in huge numbers. Putin may be authoritarian ruler who empowered oligarchs, but most Russian people would prefer eternal Putin to another Yeltsin.

@gabrokkerhun

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-wq5cq1op7z I think nothing quite demonstrates the difference between Russia and the rest of the world like the approval of Putin. He's a corrupt thief who IS part of the oligarchy that's stealing out the country from under you, he brings stagnation with an eventual yet inevitable decline and yet the Russians love him because of his carefully crafted image of being a 'strong man' representing a strong looking country, but it's all a show and Russia is a paper tiger waiting to collapse, I wonder what the Russians will think of Putin then. You have to look past trying to appear strong out of nostalgia for the Soviet Union, own up to your problems, fix them and actually be strong while having the strength of the country work for the benefit of the people instead of the benefit of the oligarchy, instead of going along with the ego stroking Reality TV show Putin provides. Yeltsin was a stronger man, he owed up to himself and admitted that he was outmatched and could do nothing to fix Russia, Putin would never let his pride be tainted and will instead lie, slander and give opium to the masses to make them believe there are no problems with the paper tiger, reality will catch up to Russia, although Putin will be living in his great mansion by then, it's the people who will be hit with the harsh reality.

@renetto_

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-wq5cq1op7z ok maybe he’s better

@goldmunds

3 жыл бұрын

Yeltsin means Capitalism and democracy, which is the way to live. So he was better than putin. Putni is a dumbo

History changed on that day for the worst

@riley4198

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and no. I guess Russia would’ve ended up tyrannical either way.

His health collapsed because of hard drinking only.

@JosephStalin-sv5lm

Ай бұрын

His blood alcohol concentration was equal to the percentage of votes got by Putin in 2024 Russian presidential election

Sri Chinmoy, President Gorbachev's dear "brother-friend" wrote many lofty books about his dear friend. Here are a few quotes: "God's Hands smilingly and proudly are shaping the world through the hands of His beloved son, Mikhail Gorbachev". "President Gorbachev: A man in a million, a heart in a billion, a soul in a TRILLION," "En route to humanity's heart-home he surmounted unsurmountable obstacles." "The test of this earth-planet is to realise who truly President Gorbachev is." "No man of integrity will dare to devalue him - his world-improvement-contributions."

Эх Борис Николаевич, Борис Николаевич, знал бы ты на кого ты нас оставил...

@figu6ka379

2 жыл бұрын

Знал бы никогда не уходил с поста... Особенно сейчас...

One of a traitor of Soviet Union.

@tatarrich9295

5 жыл бұрын

And one of the heroes of the Russian Federation

@maximkonechno8742

4 жыл бұрын

Tatar Rich бот навального пиздит в комментах,как прозаично

@FlatEarthKiller

3 жыл бұрын

@@tatarrich9295 go to gulag You can’t say he’s a hero

@tatarrich9295

3 жыл бұрын

@@FlatEarthKiller Just because of his legacy I CAN do that;)

He was too Happy for Russian

Road to hell is paved with good intention.

3:02 "В '99м Борис Николаевич передал страну в нормальном состоянии" ????? ЧТО ОНА КУРИТ

@goldmunds

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry i dont speak occupant

@mozaica458

3 жыл бұрын

@@goldmunds bruh

@user-qz3bc9qe7m

3 жыл бұрын

@@goldmunds Russophobic lottery: Where are you from? A) Poland B) some small shitty baltic countries C) some small shitty east-european contries D) German (the most hilarious variant)

@magnus_ducatus9684

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-qz3bc9qe7m Is C supposed to be an insult

i don't know why his resignation surprised people he was the only person ever to resign from the politburo under gorbachev

He gave freedom to the people. The people did not want freedom, could not handle freedom, finally despised freedom. But freedom does not care-It remains for the free. I dare say -It may or may not come from the "West" or "East" - it will come to the deserving from their own hearts and minds. Slowly or too fast? Your guess is as good as mine.🎯❓👀

Yeltsin was not a Orch.

Triggered communists below

@andro7862

4 жыл бұрын

You don't have to be a communist to hate a man ruined Russia. Do you know how bleak and dark the 90s were in Russia? My mother emigrated in 1987 to what would later become a warzone and still said she would not go back in 1993 to Russia. That's how bad it was. The 90s were a fresh start for most Europe. Except Russia. There, there were only two options for a conscious man, the bottle or the rope. And Russia still has some of the highest rates of suicide in Europe.

Amazing how comments can change. Boris in a compilation of him having fun, the people love him. When he leaves, the people hate him.

@sooryan_1018

3 жыл бұрын

That's because at the begining, people though things will be better because of free trade and all Well, little did they know

@Matyunkin

3 жыл бұрын

Putin's propaganda make everything to scare people from reformation and democracy again.

@zidorovichburblyatya2862

3 жыл бұрын

@@Matyunkin Making your economy in its worst state made big difference. Putin don't need propaganda because history shows itself that a second Yeltsin and Yeltsin himself is bad for Russia.

@zidorovichburblyatya2862

3 жыл бұрын

@@Matyunkin Propaganda and democracy means an emasculated and debt-ridden Russia like Africa after the Cold War.

@Matyunkin

3 жыл бұрын

​@@zidorovichburblyatya2862 communists have destroyed my country's economy. Yeltsin led the country through hard times so that Putin could get everything for a good life in the 2000s.

叶利钦伟人! 时代伟人!👍👍👍!!!!

@zhengyangzhao9816

4 жыл бұрын

卖国贼

Ussr best than Russia now !!!!!!!

I miss him! I thought he was funny with his antics in public!

@Deducklo

7 жыл бұрын

Elaine Evans he was an alcoholic, an embarrassment for Russia. He literally single handily ruined the biggest country in the world

@fsrsaa

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!😂😂👍👍

@fsrsaa

2 жыл бұрын

@@Deducklo no the commie Gorbachev did that by getting into a spending war with the United States

@astralisranger517

2 жыл бұрын

@@Deducklo You mistake Yeltsin with the ghost of Moscow.

@JosephStalin-sv5lm

Ай бұрын

He reduced Russia to its July 1942 Borders minus Central Asia and Causcasus

He wanted to do good, the change for a such big country as Russia in that short time was to big. Its easy to look back and say they should have done this and that. But the task was just too big and its sad that it didn't work out. Because a more western Russia would have been better for everyone.

@xres1329

2 жыл бұрын

Precisely. I had chance to talk with him briefly, face to face. The main cause of his drinking was EXACTLY because he saw clearly the troubles!👀❗🎯🏅

@brianticas7671

2 жыл бұрын

I dont think russia ever wanted to change and become westernized. Maybe cultural materialism into the country. Maybe machinery from the west some innovation. Restaurants and stuff like that. But russia always wanted to keep communism and tough leaders in power. Look at their history for christ sakes. Ivan the terrible, catherine the great, stalin, boris yeltsin, and putin. Only one that wasnt a tough dictator was gorbachev. Hes looked as a sellout.

@jackwest7197

2 жыл бұрын

You could say the exact thing about Gorbachev

*Poor Grandpa*

Russia in the 90s was the worst. In one day we are the USSR, a military, scientific, Olympic and artistic super power. Suddenly, Gorbachev took all of this from us and Boris finished sinking what was left. The mafia took over everything, there was a lot of crime and everyone was very concerned about learning to live in a new corporate Russia. I spent a good part of Yeltsin's government in Germany. I only returned in the third year of Putin. And then Russia was already much better!!

:) Oh boy,.. how big sorrow exist on the West for those Yeltsin times. They almost crying about it,..it would be funny, if its not that pathetic. Regarding Yeltsin, he and Russians behind him, really wanted to close the gap between West and Russia and stretch their friendly hand toward the West. but the West made HUGE and TERRIBLE mistake bombing Serbia in 1999 as the Austro-Hungarian and German Empire DID 1914.,.. and Nazi Germany DID bombing Serbia after Serbs refused to Pact with Hitler . 1999 NATO stepped over their own rules and regulations, UN international laws are set aside and broken,..all masks went down. Immediately after that, not less than a few months after that, Yeltsin's stepped down and Putin was introduced AS THE VERY RESULT. Bombing Serbia(Yugoslavia) was sobriety time for Russia,..and if you little know of history, Russians ALWAYS looked at Serbia. Its NOT only as for brotherhood and friendship, but AS TESTING GROUND WHAT RUSSIANS ARE TO EXPECT IN THE NEAR FUTURE AFTER SERBIA. Serbs are forever defiant and proud people who does not bend or retreat from any fight no matter the power of the force that threatening them, and Russians know that. ALL "Slavic" people look at Serbia, cause Serbia was always first as a testing ground and the first to be hit, before any campaign heading to the East. Putin explain it himself kzread.info/dash/bejne/dZOIuryRpK67j84.html ps BBC and English(not British) are continuing to rewrite history here

Борис Николаевич, спасибо Вам за демократию! Прости нас русских людей озлобленных, даже капризных. В скором времени, нет, сейчас процесс пошел переосмысления твоего правления. Борис Николаевич, прости нас за озлобленность нашу, которую имеет многовековые корни.

@srbinbreee8189

5 жыл бұрын

Живео председник Владимир Путин!!!

@earthandwind820

5 жыл бұрын

Ольга Анхелец content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,984833-11,00.html

@tatarrich9295

5 жыл бұрын

Боги, ну хоть один адекват в комментах)

@huylapan

2 жыл бұрын

++

@wederMaxim

Жыл бұрын

@@earthandwind820 так, на сарказм не похоже. Похоже на что то клиническое

"Don't tell me I'm still on that feckin' continent!"

my dream meet personaly Boris Yeltsin i read all books about

Traitor.

@guilhermehenzel5697

2 жыл бұрын

Putin is a traitor

He made Russia look like a joke.

@NBA_Eternal

2 жыл бұрын

More like destroyed russia and the USSR

Who’s the better Boris? Yeltsin or Johnson? (Becker is not an option)

@JosephStalin-sv5lm

Ай бұрын

NOTA

🤩

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

@igor4959

2 жыл бұрын

а ему все наливали и наливали, враги

ahahahahaha best drunkard president he is and BBC like that ahahahhaha but Russians don't.....

1:33

He is better than put in.

@abhisheksankarj7763

Жыл бұрын

For the west

i love Russia and putin the gart man

@gisi834

2 жыл бұрын

Still love him?

@BobC250

2 жыл бұрын

gart? Learn to spell, man!

@bunnitomoe3866

9 ай бұрын

​@@gisi834stay angry that he invade Ukraine, but you can't deny that he save Russia from collapsing and have drasticly improved Russia for the better

Yeltsin did nothing wrong

@Strongnurgling

3 жыл бұрын

Yes he did

@astralisranger517

2 жыл бұрын

He chose Putin as his successor.

@Zopiexx

Жыл бұрын

Your mad.

WIN

As an Indian I hate Yeltsin& Gorbachev

I have a lot of respect for Boris Yelstin. He got a bad rap because he was president during a terrible time to be Russian.

@navyreviewer

2 жыл бұрын

There was a good time for Russia?

@radioreactivity3561

2 жыл бұрын

@@navyreviewer from 2000 to 2008?

@terryplew3333

2 жыл бұрын

BS! He was a buffoon, a f*cking drunjen sot!

@rnelson299

2 жыл бұрын

@@navyreviewer Bad in relative terms

@CarlosCrisps

2 жыл бұрын

He was the author of those terrible times. Absolutely no sympathy for him.

But let's be honest, the USSR was crumbling in the 80s. This just sped it up. It needed to be done. Even if it didn't, Russia would be no longer feared by the world. Even Ukraine, Romania and Lithuania are now allies of the West.

@earthandwind820

5 жыл бұрын

Lewis Elliott Russia still had highly valuable companies and he let his friends and the western elite buy them for way below market price. There was a legitimate opposition that was both anti-communists and anti-Yeltsin’s NEOliberal regime and we still supported Yeltsin. We sent over advisors to push shock therapy and I even saw the CIA director during the 90’s, in an interview recently, happily and proudly say “the USA likes an economically weak Russia”.....this while talking about supposed Russian political interference in the recent presidential elections. Spot the hypocrisy and exceptionalism. There were plenty of Russian economists, who asked their western colleagues (non-political) to advise against shock therapy. They presented alternatives to responsibly privatize the country’s assets, but they were not convenient to Yeltsin and his elites nor our western elites.

It’s goodbye USSR not Russia.

Naina Yelstina is the widow wife of first president of russia boris yeltsin and mother of current president Vladimir Putin she is 91 now she outlived mikhail gorbachev as he died at 91 Naina Yeltsina Boris Yeltsin's wife and Vladimir Putin's mother

@JosephStalin-sv5lm

Ай бұрын

Putin's mother was Maria Putina

@JosephStalin-sv5lm

Ай бұрын

And his father was Vladimir Putin , not This Drunkard

Спасибо Ельцину за Путина!!!

@user-pk3nb8lq6x

4 жыл бұрын

Спасибо Путину за Путина младшего!!

@OK-vz8vj

4 жыл бұрын

Тралль Троллев Путин младший.)

@gisi834

2 жыл бұрын

Do you still think the same?

@ntks25100

2 жыл бұрын

@@gisi834 Да!!!

@astralisranger517

2 жыл бұрын

@@ntks25100 durak

This man is rolling in his grave ashamed at what Putin is doing…

@darshanahewage8018

2 жыл бұрын

Yeltsin is corrupt as hell. He bombed the parliament and waged a brutal war on Chechnya

@DipperPines1986

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, you don't know Yeltsin too well.

@alienbsg

2 жыл бұрын

He is largely responsible for this mess in the first place and the situation Russia is in

@Masquerade456

Жыл бұрын

Just like how Adolf Hitler feels about how Germany has turned into.

@JosephStalin-sv5lm

Ай бұрын

He wanted Russia to be America's pet dog, not a Stalinist superpower Putin has made it again

Russian GDP with democracy - 1991 - $2Trillion 1999 - $195Billion With Dictatorship 1999 - $195Billion 2024 - $2.1Trillion

All the comments can be sumed up by 3 words: blyat man bad

Развалил страну вместе с Горбачёвым. Надеюсь, что когда он передавал страну Путину, он уже пон мал, что натворил.

@jacblue1705

2 жыл бұрын

Вами правит самодержец, он нехороший человек, хуже всего то, что он использует религию для оправдания своих дьявольских действий.

@user-pd2kz7pe9d

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacblue1705 из какой вы страны, умник?

@jacblue1705

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-pd2kz7pe9d Из страны под названием Бразилия, в Южной Америке...

I usually agree with the BBC. But on this I have to completely disagree. Yeltzon,let his countries resources be taken both by internal and external forces,who got them by corruption with almost nothing of value going back to the Russian people,where it belonged. Instead me Yeltzin,his family,cronies and a few very wealthy people in foreign countries are the only ones who benefited economically. And by his actions,Yeltzin weakened Russia both internally and externally where the vast majority of her people were thrown into poverty and where on the world stage Russia lost all respect,became a laughing stock whose views on anything could be dismissed at will. Yeltsin,then refused to accept impeachment and his removal from office,all done constitutional by the laws set up after the fall of the Soviet Union,which led to the violence in October,1993 and then to his shelling and overthrown the established order he himself had brought in only two years before. Then he rewrote the Constitution to favor himself and democracy died and became a sham election process,while publically still calling itself democratic. A process Putin would later refine into an art form,to mask a one man dictatorship. All of this led the Russian people to hate democracy and Western values and nation's,they had long admired,and wished for during the long years of the Soviet Union. What the communists could not convince their citizens of in 70 yes,Yeltsin by his inept and criminal leadership,did in 5. Thus,Yeltsin and our misplaced arrogance about winning the cold war and radical capitalist agenda for Russia,that benefited only the few,cost us,the world and Russia a unique chance to bring a new world of peace and prosperity to us and Russia. Which led to the hostility of the Russian people and then led to Putin. Today,we are paying for those mistakes as well as the Russian people,who still must wait for true freedom and liberty again. And our nation's current promblems in our political structures,caused by no small means,though not entirely,by the mistakes of this time,are what has led to a brutal leadership in Russia under Putin,who has directed a program to undermine the USA and even destroy it,like the USSR. Luckily,our country due to it's long history of democratic values and norms will I am convinced survive,and having defeated Putin be stronger then ever. But at a great loss to our country for what will be many years wasted and some of our noble traditions forever tarnished,even after the victory is won. But for Russia,it will be an even longer time,till sadly her brave,tough and intelligent people,finally have a system where they can publically say what they feel,without a bullet in their back. But that time will come. It may be true capitalism. It may be true socialism. But it will be true democracy by the people voting freely who decide where Russia goes politically and economically. I'm just sorry for our and the west part,in making that ultimate day of freedom for Russia's long suffering people,so much longer to becoming a reality.

@earthandwind820

5 жыл бұрын

Fred Bilak As a fellow American who also knows this, I am truly surprised to see your comment. Usually, the comments are highly ignorant or have some truth and a lot of ignorance, but I nodded my head reading the entire thing. I wish more Americans and people in the West were aware of this. I also wish many of Yeltsin’s inner circle, and our American state funded media in Russia like Radio Liberty, weren’t working overtime to try and convince many young people in Russia (who didn’t live under Yeltsin) that Yeltsin in reality was a sweetheart who brought democracy and “normal” relationships with the west. They also feed them that anyone who questions the contradictions of American foreign policy and who hate the people who ruled Russia during the 90’s, are “brainwashed by Putin’s propaganda” to be supposedly “anti-liberal” (I think they mean NEOliberal), “anti-American”, “anti-west” and blah, blah, blah, as if the older people didn’t remember their life experiences and the people who did this to them.

@GabrielAbelski

2 жыл бұрын

@@earthandwind820 You have not lived in the suffering of our people idiot. Yeltsin is an idiot that destroyed the country and caused famines. And by good relationship with the west do you mean basically selling Russia to the west. Can you please stfu?

Losing brain cells over here

Cool guy!

The collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst geopolitical disaster of the second half of the 20th century. Gorbachev set the collapse in motion, and Yeltsin ultimately annihilated the USSR. Now the Russian people are regularly robbed by the oligarchs and Putin’s right-wing regime. The USSR could’ve continued, and could’ve continued as a check on America’s omnipresent dominance - but alas, it did not happen. Now we essentially have one global order - American neoliberal capitalism - something so fundamentally unsustainable I fear the world will collapse within the decades. We need communism now more than we’ve ever needed it - but the powerful voices of Marx, Engels, and Lenin are now but faint echoes of a distant past. The American order will implode, and the rest of the world will suffer along with it, sadly. What will take its place? I hope a new strand of global communism, but I doubt it.

Wait he is sober?

My crater

I understand Yeltsin now a great fighter and leader for the Russian people

@newfireidk6065

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he was a good man We should all remember him as the man that destroyed Russia, sold it off to the West, made life miserable and shoot his own parliament using tanks

@riley4198

2 жыл бұрын

No he was not. He was a weak leader that caused a war in Chechnya and ultimately lost. He also failed at keeping the “democratic” values in Russian politics.

@jenkar5716

2 жыл бұрын

@@riley4198 yes.

@johnm84

Жыл бұрын

He was a terrible useless incompetent leader.

Yeltsin is what the USA and UK want Putin to be. But Putin was like, "NYET!" 😎

@sj4632

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly right.