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dence in their leaders, in the government; they have lost their pride, their jobs, the country is falling apart~it is not unexpected, the people around Yeltsin have no idea of what they are doing. They do not think about the effect of their actions on people. They don’t understand what a first year engineer knowsyou can’t change everything at once. When you do not know what you are doing it is irresponsible to make big changes without knowing more about possible effects. The people around Yeltsin are theoreticians, they have no experience of life. They are not connected to the people. They are only thinking about themselves. And these Western advisorswhat do they know? Do they have to live with consequences of their advice. No, they stay in fancy hotels and leave whenever they want.
“Yeltsin helped Zhirinovsky too,” he continued. “Yeltsin was responsible for the attack on the White House. He should have compromised. The disagreement could have been settled peacefully, but he did not want to.”
“I saw Gorbachev on TV. He is being invited to England to get a medal. It makes me sick that this man gets so much attention in the West when he destroyed our country. He is like a criminal. Why is he liked so much in the West?” he asked me. Because he brought down the end of communism, I ventured.
“But he didn’t care about people, he deceived the people, and he sur
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