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Episode 317 GEORGE H. W. BUSH The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 3) A look at Boris Yeltsin
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In over a thousand years of Russian history only one man can lay claim as having been elected directly from the people. His name was Boris Yeltsin.
He is the man who pushed the Soviet Union over the cliff and then became the leader of the fledgling Russian Federation. He stood on a tank in defiance of a coup that was trying to seize control of the nation from the President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, and while that coup failed to topple Gorbachev, it in effect, stripped all the power away from the USSR President and all the real bonds of the republics that held it…
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