MSNBC reports that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died.
For whatever else might be said of Yeltsin — and there is plenty, good and bad — no one of my generation will ever forget the picture of him standing on the tank in those crucial days during the attempted coup by old-line Communist generals against Gorbachev.
The amount of sheer physical courage it took for Yeltsin to confront the military was mind-boggling. When the Red Army soldiers didn’t shoot him, I knew the world’s long international nightmare, Soviet Communism, was over.
Boris Yeltsin Dies at 76
ACRU Staff
April 23, 2007
MSNBC reports that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died.
For whatever else might be said of Yeltsin — and there is plenty, good and bad — no one of my generation will ever forget the picture of him standing on the tank in those crucial days during the attempted coup by old-line Communist generals against Gorbachev.
The amount of sheer physical courage it took for Yeltsin to confront the military was mind-boggling. When the Red Army soldiers didn’t shoot him, I knew the world’s long international nightmare, Soviet Communism, was over.
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