From: John Cuccia 

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:59:09 +0100, "Phil Payne"
 wrote:

>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6584481.stm
>>
>> Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies
>
>And not a word about booze.

For that, and for the most thorough deconstruction of the Yeltsin myth
imaginable, you have to go here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14272792/the_low_post_death_of_a_dru
nk
Boris Yeltsin was always good for a laugh, which is probably why on the
occasion of his death people outside of Russia are not calling him words
like scum and monster, but instead recalling him fondly, with a smile, as
one would a retarded nephew who could always be counted on to pull his
pants down at Thanksgiving dinner.

Like most people who lived in Russia during the 1990s -- and Russia was my
home throughout Yeltsin's entire reign as Russian president -- I have a
wide variety of fond memories of the Motherland's drunken, bloblike train
wreck of a revolutionary leader.

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