R.I.P.
“He was oversized, he was huge, everything about him — he was physically a giant, a big-barrel chest of complete charisma,” she said. “When you met him or were around him he was absolutely charismatic. … He was an intensely sophisticated politician.”
While Yeltsin may have been a failed statesman, Dougherty said he had a unique ability to connect with people.
“He was able to — in the late 1980s, early 1990s — tap into something that was afoot in Russia. He was able to emotionally connect with people in a way few politicians have ever been able to do.”
The debate will rage on what his legacy will be. My vote is for remembering him as bringing in Democracy to Russia, and becoming the first democratically elected president. But they’re already covering it in a negative light.
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