Sunday, May 06, 2007

Two quotes

Two quotes in particular make this Yeltsin obit worth reading:

"Power is his ideology, his friend, his concubine, his mistress, his passion," former Kremlin spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov said in 1997.

"Yeltsin is a good revolutionary, but a bad leader," Sergei Markov, a prominent Moscow political analyst, once said of Yeltsin. "He knows how to fight, but he doesn't know how to manage his victories."

That says about all you need to know about the man.

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