'It would be ridiculous to say that Yeltsin banned the Communist Party; he simply demanded that she change her name’: Rabbi Avraham Shmulevich
The naked ass of Russian freedom
As it turned out, this is what the nakedness of Russian freedom looks like.
For seventy years in a row, the Soviet Power has been raising a "new man" in the retort. Yeltsin gave this man freedom - finally extinguished the hellish (or heavenly, who seemed to whom) fire, lifted the lid, let off steam and said: "Go for a walk, Vasya. Free. You can sell retort and reagents, and you can build a garden city with money for them, and if you want, you can...dit."
Under Yeltsin, all the guiding and guiding shackles that defined and structured the life of the Soviet Man were immediately thrown off, and the Iron Woodcutter suddenly discovered that he was standing in the middle of the stopped and canceled as the phenomenon of the Forestry, left to himself, and now it is necessary to decide where to go and what to do with his Big Axe.
It is wrong to think that Yeltsin "led the country". He majestically sailed at the head of the Great River of Time, where the country rushed by itself, due to its deep desires and complexes.
Of all the Terrible KGB, Yeltsin kept Barsukov and Korzhakov, rather the characters of the joke who had already passed through the department, rather than Big Brother. At the same time, the Big Brother was not defeated, the Chekists were not repressed, as it has been accepted in Russia for centuries during the change of regime, they were not subjected to lustration and were not taken under control, but simply left to themselves. The guardians of the iron sword of the Revolution could get lost in the detachments of the restoration of the Red Dawn, start the struggle for the restoration of Soviet Power, but they went in slender columns to the gangs of organized crime groups and then did not differ much from the Big Business gangs at that time. All this is in accordance with the free choice of each "Dzerzhinsky falcon" personally.
It would be ridiculous to say that Yeltsin banned the Communist Party. He simply demanded that she change her name, after the legislative ban of the CPSU quietly transformed into the CPRF, and the newspaper "Pravda" remained the newspaper "Pravda", with all its orders on the first page. The "trial of the CPSSS" and the "process of decommunization", as demanded of him by some former anti-Soviets, did not carry out - so the appearance that Russian communism in particular and the Russian political system in general has taken is the result of an exclusively free choice of Russian communists and other actors of the Russian political process.
Yeltsin did not even try to "lay a paw" on the really monstrously huge "CPSU money" - he did not try to become the full master of the entire party fund, - that is, the richest man on the planet. It's actually amazing. But perhaps it's more surprising that this fact has not yet been reflected...
Money continued and still continues to be managed by the same layer of party nomenclature, if you look at personalities. Yeltsin also freed him from the restraining shackles of all party control - he allowed the first or second third secretaries of the CPSU-Komsomol, general marshals and red professors to use countless party money as they really want. And the generals rushed to turn the tanks intended to conquer the West into Western Mercedes, the Chairmen of the party committees were united and voluntarily transformed into the Chairmen of the Boards of Joint Stock Companies. Yeltsin's family, of course, also took a piece of this pie into the hands of its due - but quite in the order of the general nomenclature queue.
Yeltsin did not even create any capable power structures personally loyal to him to protect himself and his rule - something also unprecedented in Russian history.
When the EBN had a conflict with the Supreme Council, which tried to seize power from the hands of Grandfather, Yeltsin's recruiters simply went with packs of bucks in their pocket to the locations of all kinds of Taman and other divisions and hired landsknechts - those who wanted to go. No one was driven by barrier detachments, as well as no law enforcement agencies were involved, no apparatus that could prevent the rest of the army and special services from defending the Supreme Council - if they had such a desire. Most of them did not show desires, and those who did, in general, were not subjected to any serious repressions, no traditional shooting execution for the "inside the Garden Ring" morning followed. The leaders of the rebels got away with a few months of comfortable servance, and then moved to the seats of governors and deputies of the same Parliament shot by Yeltsin. No one interfered with them. As no one interfered with the collection and publication of evidence of atrocities against ordinary defenders during the suppression of the "Parliament coup". The fact that these testimonies, now available to everyone, did not cause any reaction from the Russian public and had no consequences - again, the free choice of it, the Russian public.
The same in all other spheres of life.
In general, Yeltsin's message to his people can be formulated as follows: "If you want, take your freedom. Everyone will take away how much. And do whatever you want with her."
Soviet builder Yeltsin himself came to power, - more precisely, he achieved it for himself, built a throne for himself, sat on it as much as he wanted and, by his free choice, and stepped aside.
Well, apparently, every time and every place has its own free bricklayers.
Freedom comes naked,
Throwing flowers on the heart,
And we, walking with her,
We'll tall you with the sky.
We, warriors, will strike strictly
With your hand on the harsh shields:
Let the people be sovereign
Always, forever, here and there!
Let the maidens sing at the window,
Between songs about the ancient campaign,
About the faithful subdant of the Sun -
To the autocratic people.
So sang Velimir Khlebnikov, infucated with the Revolution, but was a little wrong. It's not "we" who keep pace with it, but it's "freedom" that keeps pace with "us". And she rarely "steads" anywhere at all. In rare, truly significant moments of history, Freedom is distributed - everyone can then take it exactly as much as they want to take away. It was such a distributor of freedom that the now deceased Boris Nikolaevich turned out to be.