The Peculiar Truth about Boris Yeltsin’s Alcoholism
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2 min readJul 26, 2022
- Boris Yeltsin was Russia’s president from 1991 to 1999.
- He and US President Bill Clinton had a cordial relationship.
- They met 18 times, more than any other American and Russian presidents.
- Yeltsin was a raging alcoholic.
- During his first trip to Washington, DC in 1994, Yeltsin got shitfaced and was seen on a city street outside the White House in nothing but his underwear.
- Secret Service agents found him hailing a taxi and yelling for a pizza. They quietly returned him to his residence where guards mistook him for a drunken intruder.
- Days later, Yeltsin left Irish government representatives waiting on an airfield tarmac to greet him as he was too drunk to get off his plane.
- On an official Moscow visit, Hillary Clinton tried to keep her husband from drinking. Noting this, Yeltsin instructed his staff to make private arrangements. He then took President Clinton to a Kremlin men’s room where booze awaited them. Clinton and Yeltsin returned noticeably tipsy.
- During his re-election campaign, Yeltsin was often seen stumbling drunk during public appearances.
- He also secretly suffered heart attacks.
- British officials privately worried…
