Nika’s Reviews > The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin > Status Update
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"Yeltsin was given a chance granted to very few. He was Russia’s overwhelmingly popular head of state at a pivotal moment in the country’s history after the fall of the Soviet Union and could have helped Russia to break once and for all with its totalitarian past. Unfortunately, he understood communism as an economic phenomenon and assumed that to produce democracy it was necessary only to change economic structures"
— May 25, 2022 10:29AM
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Many things changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. But as society was rapidly transformed, it became obvious that there had been no moral revolution in Russia. Communist society had taken it for granted that the individual was expendable; postcommunist Russia did as well, often to an even greater degree.
— May 23, 2022 11:42AM
