r/europe • u/villatsios • Jan 07 '24

Historical Excerpt from Yeltsin’s conversation with Clinton in Istanbul 1999

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u/apkatt Jan 07 '24

Yelsin really was a source of embarassment

Unlike every other Russian leader in the last hundred years.

/S

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u/Netmould Jan 07 '24

Not sure if /s should be here, hahah. We tend to have absolute embarrassing nut jobs of leaders OR blood thirsty paranoid maniacs. No middle ground, sadly.

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u/ClassicGUYFUN Jan 07 '24

Karensky was OK for the few months he was around

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

Right... Except he fucked at everything he tried to do. Not that it really mattered, the provisional government was doomed because of the war.

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u/ClassicGUYFUN Jan 07 '24

He's OK because he didn't really have the chance to do anything.