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The Radio 3 Boards > General Chat > News And Current Affairs > Obituary Pages > R.I.P. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, 1.2.1931-23.4.2007
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« on: 11:55:19, 24-04-2007 »
His drinking was said to be “normal” for a Russian man, i.e. one bottle of vodka a day.

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« Reply #2 on: 16:14:54, 24-04-2007 »
RT should weigh in here, but I believe Boris' musical skills extended to playing the spoons on a bald cabinet
ministers' pate.
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« Reply #3 on: 21:04:20, 24-04-2007 »
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but I believe Boris' musical skills extended to playing the spoons on a bald cabinet
ministers' pate.

Surely you've not forgotten the infamous time he "conducted an orchestra" in Germany?

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I feel rather sorry for him, actually. He did indeed make a number of huge blunders.  However, he was a patriot,  and he led his country from Communism to Capitalism, and presided over the dismantling of the USSR without a shot being fired.  That, alone, is an achievement to cherish.
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« Reply #4 on: 21:10:13, 24-04-2007 »
RIP. I never liked him much, but at least he was not Hitler of Stalin.
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« Reply #5 on: 22:27:17, 24-04-2007 »
One of my favourite remarks of all time was made by Yeltsin's longest-lasting Prime-Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, who famously said - without intending it to sound amusing - of his attempts at reform:

"We wanted it to be the best; but unfortunately it turned-out as usual".

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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #6 on: 22:56:19, 24-04-2007 »
Such a coinsidence Reiner. It happens to be my favourite quote. It applies to everything in my life too.

I liked Gorbachev better, but many people will disagree with me.
PS Do you have a favourite Russian poem for Poetry thread?
I am afraid to attempt to translate Tzvetaeva, but may be I can find it translated on google.
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #7 on: 00:04:07, 25-04-2007 »
With Yeltsin, whatever his faults may have been, you have to ask the question: who else could have done it? Perhaps he drank too much and played to the gallery but would a quiet, sober-minded person have had his courage?
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