Context: In September 1989, then-Soviet parliament member Boris Yeltsin was visiting the United States in order to observe and understand the US system so he could better propose his own reforms to the Soviet system.
On September 16th, Yeltsin made a fateful visit to a Randall’s Food Market in Clear Lake, Texas. During his 20 minute, unscheduled visit, Yeltsin was reportedly overawed and stunned by the abundence and varieties of food available to the average US citizen, which he described as being far more numerous and plentiful than even Soviet elites could dream of.
Of particular fascination to Yeltsin was the large variety of frozen pudding pops, which he reportedly spent a long time admiring.
Yeltsin would later write that the experience made him “sick with despair” for the Soviet people, and an aide, Lev Sukhanov, would later say that “the last shred of Bolshevism collapsed” inside Yeltsin.
Successful_Guard8711 on
Your acting like Boris was this Stalinist hardliner who wanted to turn the ussr to its roots. Yeltsin was a capitalist. Him and his boys introduced markets reforms into the Soviet economy that caused the shortages. The ussr was destroyed from the inside and now capitalist pedophiles run the world with impunity.
BzhizhkMard on
Yelstin the traitor and drunkard father of the new Tsarist Russia.
Pfeffersack2 on
me when I repeat propaganda
EnergyHumble3613 on
TBF decades of spending to keep up with US Defence spending didn’t help either.
sw337 on
He went to a 2nd rate grocery store in the Houston suburbs. The real flex would have been taking him to a Costco.
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Context: In September 1989, then-Soviet parliament member Boris Yeltsin was visiting the United States in order to observe and understand the US system so he could better propose his own reforms to the Soviet system.
On September 16th, Yeltsin made a fateful visit to a Randall’s Food Market in Clear Lake, Texas. During his 20 minute, unscheduled visit, Yeltsin was reportedly overawed and stunned by the abundence and varieties of food available to the average US citizen, which he described as being far more numerous and plentiful than even Soviet elites could dream of.
Of particular fascination to Yeltsin was the large variety of frozen pudding pops, which he reportedly spent a long time admiring.
Yeltsin would later write that the experience made him “sick with despair” for the Soviet people, and an aide, Lev Sukhanov, would later say that “the last shred of Bolshevism collapsed” inside Yeltsin.
Your acting like Boris was this Stalinist hardliner who wanted to turn the ussr to its roots. Yeltsin was a capitalist. Him and his boys introduced markets reforms into the Soviet economy that caused the shortages. The ussr was destroyed from the inside and now capitalist pedophiles run the world with impunity.
Yelstin the traitor and drunkard father of the new Tsarist Russia.
me when I repeat propaganda
TBF decades of spending to keep up with US Defence spending didn’t help either.
He went to a 2nd rate grocery store in the Houston suburbs. The real flex would have been taking him to a Costco.