Letters to the Editor
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Mr. Proton is Wrong
The idea that Yeltsin somehow stopped the coup and "rescued" Gorbachev is just wrong. The Soviet Army overthrew the coup by pulling their support for it and green-lighting the pro-Gorbachev forces. As you might remember, Yeltsin invested a huge effort in making sure the coup plotters never came to trial. Why you think that might have been? Could they have known more than Yeltsin wanted to emerge? You bet your ass. And how about those tanks in the streets of Moscow, shooting up the Parliament, a Parliament that was elected by the same Russian people who elected Yeltsin? A real lover of democracy, that Yeltsin. And then using state media and massive vote fraud to get his handpicked KGB apparachik, Putin, elected to take his place, on condition that the billions in ill-gotten gains of Yeltsin, his family, and his cronies, never be investigated. All this while living conditions collapsed, the nation was looted, and Russians died while thier economy was "privatized" by Western ideologues bent on a free market utopia to replace the Communist one. A paragon of virtue. Spare us the Odes of Boris, please.