Is Yeltsin a Hero or a Sinner in Russia?

Almost every historical figure is complicated. Yeltsin was the promoter of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the founder of modern Russian state. As the first president of Russia, Yeltsin's achievements plummeted, bringing the Russian people into dire straits. Yeltsin can be said to be an excellent destroyer, but not because of an excellent builder. Yeltsin and Gorbachev, the last helmsman in the history of the Soviet Union, have the same political ideas, both of which are to end the Stalin model and improve the reform of the Soviet Union. But Gorbachev was conservative and advocated keeping the Soviet shell. Yeltsin is more radical and wants to completely change the social system and join the capitalist camp.

Yeltsin was so naive that he was played by the west as a monkey. He thought that Russia could be accepted by capitalist countries such as Britain and America by changing the social system and taking the capitalist road, but he played the biggest joke in the world. After the disintegration of Russia, although it embarked on the road of capitalist development, it was restrained by the tightening of sanctions by western countries led by the United States. NATO's eastward expansion directly pushed Russia to its doorstep. It is wishful thinking for Russia to crush its head and want to enter the European Union. How can France and Germany tolerate you? Western countries also instigated the Chechen rebellion, and Ukraine rose up to resist, making the already poor Russian people worse. Yeltsin's five years in power set a record for the lowest support rate of Russian leaders, which was 1 1%.

Yeltsin had no choice but to seek his political support by selling state-owned assets to economic oligarchs. Economic oligarchs quickly plundered state-owned assets and the Russian people, leaving the Russian people in dire straits. The bottom people have no jobs and wander the streets, but oligarchs are rich empires. The gap between rich and poor in Russia is very obvious. On the last day of the 20th century, Yeltsin surrendered power, lost his way, claimed that he was physically ill, and handed over power to the energetic young leader Putin. Russia entered the Putin era.

The Russian people commented that Yeltsin was in power for 10 years, and the most correct thing he did was to hand over power to a capable person, Putin. Gorbachev and Putin can be said to be the two leaders that the Russian people least support, but their contribution to Sino-Russian relations is unmatched by other leaders. Gorbachev eased the medium-speed relationship that had been interrupted for nearly 30 years at the end of his administration and approved the sale of Su -27 fighters to China, which greatly improved the level of our air force. Yeltsin spared no effort to develop modern military science and technology in China. From the army tanks, anti-aircraft guns, infantry fighting vehicles, rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, guided missile destroyers of the navy and Soviet-made 30MKK fighters of the Air Force, they were all sold to China. I have never seen such a generous leader of a big country, which directly narrowed the gap between the modern weapons and equipment of our three armed forces and the equipment of the US military. It is really unreasonable not to praise Yeltsin.