Comments on: Yeltsin Passes http://cominganarchy.com/2007/04/24/yeltsin-passes/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:04:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nick http://cominganarchy.com/2007/04/24/yeltsin-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-373823 Nick Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:05:38 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2007/04/24/yeltsin-passes/#comment-373823 I'll amend my above comment - it seems I was wrong, having just spoken to a recognised Slavophile. Yeltsin was indeed <i>kulturnyi</i>, but what he did have in abundance, of course, was <i>ducha</i> ('soul') - and what Putin clearly does not. I’ll amend my above comment – it seems I was wrong, having just spoken to a recognised Slavophile. Yeltsin was indeed kulturnyi, but what he did have in abundance, of course, was ducha (’soul’) – and what Putin clearly does not.

]]> By: Nick http://cominganarchy.com/2007/04/24/yeltsin-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-373822 Nick Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:57:45 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2007/04/24/yeltsin-passes/#comment-373822 Farewell, indeed. Who now will play the spoons on the heads of hapless leaders of mountainous Central Asian states? Memory eternal. More seriously, though, a quick comparison between Boris and the goons many ex-Soviet republics got lumbered with (karimov, Niyazov, nazarbayev, Lukashenko, Aliyev etc) reveals that Russia was lucky, to an extent. My impression is that he tapped into the popular consensus and created a distintinctly un-kulturnyi personality that chimed with many Russians in a way few Russian or Soviet leaders had (perhaps the last being Khrushchev). Farewell, indeed. Who now will play the spoons on the heads of hapless leaders of mountainous Central Asian states? Memory eternal.

More seriously, though, a quick comparison between Boris and the goons many ex-Soviet republics got lumbered with (karimov, Niyazov, nazarbayev, Lukashenko, Aliyev etc) reveals that Russia was lucky, to an extent. My impression is that he tapped into the popular consensus and created a distintinctly un-kulturnyi personality that chimed with many Russians in a way few Russian or Soviet leaders had (perhaps the last being Khrushchev).

]]> By: Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace http://cominganarchy.com/2007/04/24/yeltsin-passes/comment-page-1/#comment-373819 Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:11:56 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2007/04/24/yeltsin-passes/#comment-373819 I was surprised he hadn't died earlier - he seemed a sort of W.C. Fields figure - rather too fond of the vodka.... He looks quite out of it in the photo... I was surprised he hadn’t died earlier – he seemed a sort of W.C. Fields figure – rather too fond of the vodka…. He looks quite out of it in the photo…

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