Yeltsin learns well

Anderson Bob band at unm.edu
Fri Dec 31 15:52:31 PST 1999


So, instead of helping foster a in new viable constitutional democracy by walking the country through the process of a election to bring in new leadership, Yeltsin opts to side track the process by resigning so his hand selected replacement will fill out his term. This is an old trick of the bourgeoise democracies. Yeltsin has learned well from the west and offers the world nothing new. The ones who lose are the masses of Russian who might have had a more level playing field had Yeltsin stayed on. He does not say this is for health reasons, so the reason is highly political. It cold possibly lead to more challenges to the US favored regime in Moscow. Yeltsin says he is the first to peacefully transfer power in his country but I believe the former leader, Gorbachev set the precedent. Sorry Yeltsin, you lose all the way around and history will remember you well for this trickery, one even Bill Clinton would not try.

bob



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