Boris Yeltsin: a Truthful Reformer?
How bizarre was Boris Yeltsin’s persona?
Imagine getting the director position at your job. After this moment, you are walking towards the podium to make a speech outlining the goals of the group and to greet your peers; however, you embarrassingly stumble and fall over. We all probably had moments in front of the public that we wish we could forget. Yet, Boris Yeltsin had one too many of those. And he was no director at your company. He is one of the few leaders’ in recent history that has compilations on YouTube of being wholly drunk and unaware that he is the face of a new and upcoming superpower- Russia. Alcoholism is no joke. It was pretty sad.
Yet, he was the same man that was willing to fight for democracy in the Soviet Union and undermine the last leader of the communist regime — Mikhail Gorbachev. He was the persona that the western capitalistic world needed, to push their agenda and to help completely transform the ultimate rival of the past 50 years, USSR.
Organisations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, had helped the emerging leader to consolidate power in the newly independent country. Western media was comparatively negligent of the errors and decisions that Yeltsin made; instead, it seemed they wanted to portray him as a reformist that pushed to install…
