Boris Yeltsin died yesterday. I don't have any deep feelings about him, but I think he got far too much credit and far too much blame for the events that transpired in the USSR/Russia under his watch. He was a man of great courage and great failings, and was, in many ways, both the wrong man and the best man to be in his place in his time. Putin certainly hasn't been a big improvement, now has he?
mcjoan at dKos has a good summation/obit.
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