#yeltsin

[afranse]

Ельцин кувыркается в могиле,

Клинтон озабоченный всерьёз.

Скольких из-за них уже убили?

Сколько было горя? Сколько слёз?

Скоро в книгу Гиннеса войдёт,

Как мозги наполнил он туманом.

Мы встречаем тридцать первый год,

Как подписан этот меморандум.

Сколько ожиданий и надежд

Нёс с собою город Будапешт.

Но не верит в меморандум танк,

Если в нём сидит орангутанг.

Новый открывается рубеж,

Вновь орангутанг поставит подпись,

Но не забывайте Будапешт

Не закрыл зияющую пропасть,

Между миром орков и людей,

Между диктатурой и свободой.

На дворе кровавая метель

Души людям рвёт четыре года.

Если человек убийца, вор,

Сколько его стоит договор?

Кто не понимает - для невежд:

Меморандум. Город Будапешт.

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Yeltsin is turning in his grave,

Clinton is seriously concerned.

How many people have already been killed?

How many tears have been shed?

Soon it will probably get in the Guinness Book of Records,

As the most useless document.

We are celebrating the thirty-first year,

Since this memorandum was signed.

How many expectations and hopes

The city of Budapest carried with it.

But a tank doesn't believe in a memorandum,

If there's an orangutan sitting in it.

A new frontier is opening,

An orangutan one more time will place a signature.

But don't forget Budapest

Did not close the gaping abyss,

Between the world of orcs and people,

Between dictatorship and freedom.

Outside, a bloody blizzard rages,

Tearing people's souls apart for four years.

If a person is a murderer and a thief,

How much is his agreement worth?

Those who don't understand should remember

Failed Budapest Memorandum.

[sovietpostsoviet]

Fuck yeah Ruslan Imranovich

[eastern-anarchist]

My (in fact, not only mine) theory: look for the origins of Russian fascism in the reign of Boris Yeltsin. Claiming that everything started with Putin is too superficial, and to say that "Russians have imperialism in their blood" is a determinism that explains nothing. Now articles and reflections about the Chechen war have begun to appear more often, but not about Yeltsin's two presidential terms. But in vain!

Revanchism and hatred of the West are directly related to neo-liberal reforms - the very same "shock therapy". Neo-liberal reforms were designed not only by guys like Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, but also by Western economists like Jeffrey Sachs. The Russian market was filled with Western goods - in times of mass unemployment, hyperinflation and banditry. The US and Western Europe got on very well with Russia. All this created fertile ground for the growth of feelings of resentment and the mood "Russia was handed over to the West for McDonald's." And yes, although Putin constantly contrasted his policies with the 90s, he is a direct consequence of Yeltsin's rule! Why? Because:

Anti-democracy. "Putinism" won in 1993 during the shooting of the White House, when the Yeltsin administration didn't want to compromise with the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council. Btw, the problem also concerned "shock therapy", which was opposed by the deputies, but Yeltsin's officials wanted to continue it. "Putinism" also won in 1996, when a some oligarchs backed Yeltsin for fear of losing illegally privatized property. Finally, "Putinism" won during the election of Putin himself, when he was chosen as "successor" by Yeltsin's daughter and her husband, as well as by the oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Putin seemed to be the most loyal to Yeltsin and also the guarantor of the preservation of the oligarchy.

Tolerance for violence. Of course, the Chechen wars played a major role here. Although, tbh, the Chechen separatists led by Dzhokhar Dudayev weren't "good guys" (however many people now think so), the federal government had the opportunity to resolve the conflict peacefully. But the Yeltsin administration was a supporter of the deployment of regular troops into Chechnya (read - the destruction of the city of Grozny, the flow of Chechen refugees, war crimes against the civilian population). Now, during the invasion of Ukraine, we see many episodes of cruelty that were in the Chechen wars: attempts to "take" the city by carpet bombing, shooting objects (cars, houses) with the inscriptions "children" and "people live here", etc.

[monarchocommunism]

Les communistes et monarchistes unis. Russie 1993.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Actions across Russia honor 1993 Moscow Uprising

There is no forgiveness for the executioners!

By United Communist Party October 7: Many people in different regions of Russia took part in actions in memory of the heroes of the popular uprising in October 1993. As always, these events were supported by activists of the United Communist Party (OKP). In MOSCOW, our comrades organized the laying of flowers and an impromptu rally that took place on October 3 at the walls of the House of the Government of Russia (formerly the House of Soviets).

[nobodyownsland]

I can’t stop listening to this song and imagining what it must’ve been like to watch your entire country fall apart, institutions your grandparents fought and died for crumble, the entire government usurped by social democrats, your financial and material security destroyed, in one night thrust into a capitalist economy more than happy to exploit and grind you into dust, all so that Gorbachev and Yeltsin could have a Pizza Hut.

[sennettyoung]

Reading politics articles like it’s 1997

[igorusha]