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https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25741 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:17:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/#comment-25741 I doubt he’ll require embalming, he’ll enter the coffin pre-pickled.

]]> https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25740 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:33:38 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/#comment-25740 With the reports of drinking, I’m surprised he lasted this long. I hope he wasn’t sober when he went out…

]]> https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25718 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:40:22 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/#comment-25718 Chechnya was the result of his birth in the southern Urals, there was no love lost between Russians and non-Russians in the region, but for all of the “nice guy” facade, he was definitely a street fighter.

]]> https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25716 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:56:24 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/04/23/rip-boris-yeltsin-1931-2007/#comment-25716 A blue collar mayor like Richard J. Daley the Elder. But, also like Daley when it came to Vietnam, a bull-headed jingoist. It would explain Yeltsin’s poor Chechen decisions.

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