in memory of boris yeltsin

boris yeltsin, you were quite an amazing man. mikhail gorbachev opened the doors to freedom by ending the most repressive practices of the soviet union, when he was the soviet union’s first benevolent dictator, after a long string of malevolent dictators. gorbachev finally put an end to stalinism, and brought freedom to the soviet union. but this was not enough. boris yeltsin, you got on top of a tank, and you destroyed the soviet union. you ended the reign of mikhail gorbachev and instituted democracy. you ended communism and instituted capitalism. you privatized all the state-owned monopolies. you destroyed everything, and the entire evil empire collapsed. but you did not know how to rebuild. you were an alcoholic. all you knew how to do was dismantle the infrastructure of oppression, the communist totalitarian system. but in its place, what did you build? did you turn russia into a stable, prosperous, pro-western democracy? no. you left us with vladimir putin, a dictator who has won elections by controlling the media and jailing or assassinating dissidents. vladimir putin has brought back the worst elements of the kgb and has been rebuilding the infrastructure of oppression, bringing back the same people who used to run the old totalitarian system. vladimir putin claims he is not a communist and that russia is no longer communist. but look at his actions. vladimir putin is rebuilding russia and reviving its economy, but oppressing the people of chechnya, and trying to control former soviet republics like georgia, the ukraine, and others. vladimir putin has made himself into an enemy of the western democracies, building dangerous alliances with nations like iran. he is funding all of this using russian fossil fuel resources that are sold mainly to europe, and he tries to manipulate the markets for fossil fuels in order to drive up prices, make more money, and create instability in the former soviet republics that russia can exploit to dominate those nations once again. vladimir putin is rebuilding the soviet union, except this time the empire does not officially exist, nor is it communist anymore. but boris yeltsin, you are responsible for all of this, by picking the wrong successor. you were an alcoholic and sometimes behaved foolishly. i know that you were a good man with good intentions, boris yeltsin. and you did a good job destroying the soviet union. but why on earth did you put this ex-kgb manipulative trickster in as your successor? did he manipulate you and trick you into trusting him? i feel sorry for you, boris yeltsin. you had so much promise. you could have rebuilt russia into a thriving democracy, a stable nation that continued to be a superpower. but now russia is a huge rogue state intent on covertly rebuilding a fallen empire. vladimir putin, the great trickster, has tricked us all. if only you had picked a better successor. boris yeltsin, you went from being a great liberator to a pathetic failure, an alcoholic buffoon. why? why did this happen to you? still, you did a lot of good for the world, boris yeltsin, and the good outweighs the bad things that came from your tragic collapse into foolish silly behavior. maybe things would have turned out better if mikhail gorbachev had been the one to dismantle communism and create a capitalist democracy. mikhail gorbachev is quite a smart man, a good and decent man, and someone we should all admire. i am glad he is still alive to offer sage advice to those of us alive today, wisdom from his experiences, and thoughtful commentary on the world today and what we as humanity must do to perservere. boris yeltsin, i think your alcoholism may have been the disease that rotted out your brain and removed your intelligence. but we should all revere boris yeltsin for doing his best to make russia a peaceful, democratic, capitalist nation that is an ally to other western democracies. he may have failed, but he did his best, and that is all that we could have hoped of him. and i am glad that boris yeltsin and bill clinton were such good friends. they are quite similar in some respects, as silly buffoons with good intentions, except for the fact that bill clinton is much smarter. boris yeltsin, i am saddened by how alcoholism destroyed you. if only mikhail gorbachev were in charge of russia instead of that cold-hearted thug vladimir putin. you put your trust in the wrong man, boris yeltsin. but thank you for the good that you did manage to bring to the world. thank you for putting an end to stalinism. but you never could understand the power of the russian reversal. in soviet russia, you don’t put an end to communism; communism puts an end to you. in soviet russia, you don’t consume alcohol; alcohol consumes you. vladimir putin is a true master of the russian reversal. in soviet russia, you can’t get rid of vladimir putin, because vladimir putin gets rid of you.