It is dangerous to grab the Constitution with your hands: the best sayings of Boris Yeltsin
The best aphorisms of the first president of Russia
On July 3, Boris Yeltsin was re-elected President of the Russian Federation. Those who are now at least closer to 30 remember how significant a figure he seemed then. In honor of this, “TOLK” decided to recall the best phrases of the politician.
"I'm tired, I'm leaving"
It is dangerous to grab the Constitution with your hands: the best sayings of Boris Yeltsin
This is perhaps the most famous quote from Boris Yeltsin. This phrase, which he uttered on December 31, 1999 in his New Year's speech, was heard by 146 million Russians. 20 years later, this aphorism is still remembered and pronounced.
“Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow”
Boris Yeltsin said this phrase on August 8, 1990 in Kazan, when he met with the public. The politician continued this sentence with the words: “I don’t want... to be a brake on the development of the national identity of each republic.”
It is dangerous to grab the Constitution with your hands: the best sayings of Boris Yeltsin
“There will be no devaluation of the ruble.
This is firm and clear.” This phrase was spoken by the president on August 14, 1998. Thus, he answered a question from journalists about whether there would be a default. Then he added: “My statement is not just my fantasy, and not because I would not like devaluation. My statement is based on the fact that everything has been calculated. Position tracking work is carried out every day. The situation is completely under control." Let us recall that on August 17, 1998, a technical default was declared on the main types of government debt obligations. This day is otherwise called Black Monday.
“The age of a politician is 65 years old, and after that he falls into insanity”
This phrase was first heard from the president on July 1, 1991. The politician’s bodyguard Alexander Korzhakov said that Yeltsin sincerely believed in his statement and uttered it very often. Let us note that the president voluntarily resigned when he was 67 years old.
“Great Russia is rising from its knees”
This aphorism from Yeltsin was heard on the day of his oath of office (July 10, 1991). If we take it in greater detail, his speech sounded as follows: “I am optimistic about the future and ready for energetic action. Great Russia is rising from its knees! We will definitely turn it into a prosperous, democratic, peace-loving, legal and sovereign state. The work, which is difficult for all of us, has already begun. Having gone through so many trials, with a clear understanding of our goals, we can be firmly confident: Russia will be reborn!”
It is dangerous to grab the Constitution with your hands: the best sayings of Boris Yeltsin
Other famous sayings of Boris Yeltsin:
- “Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin lived a great life, visited both above and below, and below, and above...”
- “It is dangerous to grab the Constitution with your hands during the election race.”
- “Money is short, but you need to love people a lot.”
- “If prices become unmanageable, more than three or four times higher, I myself will fall on the rails.”
- “We will destroy our nuclear weapons together with America.”
- “Kol and I met three times. This is such a man’s love.”
- “The capital's residents are lucky to have a talented mayor. Athlete, all-around athlete, football player, tennis player.”
- “I have no doubt about victory, I ask the faint of heart not to fuss, and let them not rush into changing portraits, you understand.”
- “Tonight I was somehow preparing. Well, I decided to read Pushkin with a fresh mind, so to speak, at two o’clock in the morning. And you know, it turned out to be not so simple.”
- “What should we do next? Or, I apologize, expose your bare ass, or somehow provide yourself with, you know, good cover in the east.”
- “Well, look, Russia is simply unlucky. Peter I did not complete the reform, Catherine II did not complete the reform, Alexander II did not complete the reform, Stolypin did not complete the reform. I must complete the reform."
- “I threw a coin into the Yenisei for luck. But don’t think that this is the end of the financial support for your region from the president.”
- “You give birth poorly. I understand that it’s difficult to give birth now, but you still need to gradually push yourself.”
- “Waking up in the morning, I ask myself: what have you done for Ukraine?”
- “To convince him that my heart works like a clock, I took him to the bathhouse.”
- “Is Russian chocolate worse than imported chocolate? What about beer? I’m not talking about vodka.”
- “Today, precisely today, there is no alternative to Yeltsin. Tomorrow there will be. But today, no.”
Let us remember that Boris Yeltsin passed away on April 23, 2007.
Who cheated whom: Yeltsin, Putin and back
Since March, our publication has been “summarizing” Russian statehood after 1991 under the heading “30 years of anti-Soviet power.” And those who were in this government or under this government had their own “intermediate finish” (for example, in Kommersant there was a special project “30 years without the USSR”, although not only there).
So on the website “Echo of Moscow” the second son-in-law of the first president of the Russian Federation (there were three such sons-in-law) publishes fragments of the book “From Yeltsin to Putin and back” with the subtitle “Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Great August Democratic Revolution.”
Oh how great! I won’t argue about the “revolution,” because a change in economic formation to the opposite is a revolution: “a revolution will not be crowned with success, otherwise it will be called differently.”
For some reason, the ex-son-in-law of the ex-president, Alexei Dyachenko, signs, although he is Leonid Yuryevich Dyachenko . Either I don’t like the name, or it confuses Internet search engines, it doesn’t matter in this context. What is more revealing is not the name, not the subtitle, but the title - “Yeltsin and those who changed their shoes .
From a literal reading, one might think that we are talking about Boris Nikolayevich himself, a member of the CPSU since 1961, who after 30 years (again, thirty!) tried on the “shoes” of a democratic leader and swore an oath on July 10, 1991 to “observe the Constitution and laws of the RSFSR.” Then he “changed his shoes” to the first Russian Federation, after 1993 to the second, and then often did not value his previous “shoes” (from “lie on the rails” to “there will be no default”).
Yeltsin Boris Nikolaevich. SayingsLaughter for no reason
Statements by Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (1931-2007), the first President of Russia... 1. What to do next? Or, I apologize, expose your bare ass, or somehow provide yourself with, you know, good cover in the east...
2. He lived a long life: he visited both above and below, and below, and above! (About Viktor Chernomyrdin).
3. I had such a hero - Pushkin. (Answering the question of who is his favorite literary hero).
4. Apparently we are close in character, so he goes for a short contact, and I go for a short contact, and two short contacts do not give a short circuit, but give a good return. (About Gerhard Schröder).
5. This is how the squiggle turns out.
6. Two ministers were stubborn and did not want to resolve this issue. We took them and cut them down...
7. Money is short, but you need to love people a lot... and this needs to be combined. (“Literary newspaper” No. 39, 1998).
8. There was no Yeltsin dictatorship and there never will be, and I will not allow other dictatorships.
9. Europe without Russia is not Europe. Only with Russia can it become a great Europe. And such a large Europe, the like of which no longer exists and cannot exist on the globe.
10. You can’t use force, and you can’t retreat... There must be victory, and there must be no war. Diplomacy, you understand!.. (About Chechnya).
11. And yet in Russia everyone has symbolic thinking. (“Presidential Marathon”).
12. Sometimes I discuss, say, with Evgeniy Maksimovich together or in another composition, it’s just a pleasure, so to speak, to experience how he finds these solutions. (About E. Primakov).
13. As the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the religious forces of Russia, I congratulate you on this holiday. (Congratulating Patriarch of All Rus' Alexy II on May 9th).
14. We will destroy our nuclear weapons together with America.
15. Kohl and I met three times. This is a man's love. (“AiF” No. 25, 1998).
16. We have now adopted a program of stabilization measures that will lead to the stabilization of reforms. (From a televised address to Russian citizens, 1998).
17. We, of course, do everything we can on our part, but we can’t do everything. That is, we can, but our conscience does not allow us. (From the statement on Yugoslavia).
18. You have to be careful, you know, in our world, which is full of different types of weapons. Otherwise, you won’t have time to notice how the terrorists will throw planes, bombs...
19. God forbid you criticize Belarusians and Lukashenko. Otherwise you will have to deal with me!
20. Feel free, so to speak, to supplement your intellect here with Japanese intellect. As much as I have personal contact with Ryu, I still feel like I’m becoming smarter.
21. I don’t have time to raise him. Today I decided to raise again.” (About S. Stepashin).
22. My blood pressure is now 120 over 80. Wake up at night - 120 over 80. Wake up in the morning - 120 over 80. During times of great stress, wake up - 120 over 80. During an important meeting - 120 over 80.
23. Well, maybe there are still thoughts on economics, but on finance it’s even hard to say.
24. They put one, the other to one side... And everything went!
25. Pinning a woman is sometimes awkward... (at the award ceremony)
26. Fifty types of microelements in one cow. That's why she gives. (“Results” No. 30, 1998).
27. I used to think badly of him. Now I don't think at all. (About M. Gorbachev)
28. You give birth poorly. I understand that it’s difficult to give birth now, but you still need to gradually push yourself. (“Results” No. 2, 1996).
29. There is a board of trustees, and together they discuss, so to speak, a plan on how to work. And, of course, they don’t allow sex, so to speak, performances, etc., to penetrate there, which is why we need to gradually get rid of it completely.
30. Either he was in a hurry to leave, or he caught some kind of virus. Either he got hypothermic in the bathhouse. (“Presidential Marathon”).
31. For three years we stood before a deep abyss and finally took a big step forward.
32. Good Narzan water, delicious. Tasty and healthy. But I have nothing to treat, I’m fine. But for prevention, for rejuvenation, I need to think about rejuvenation. After all, it’s already 71 years old.
33. It was the right decision. My decision.
34. I threw a coin into the Yenisei for luck. But do not think that this is the end of the financial support of your region from the president.
35. I’m tonight - well, somehow you’re getting ready... Well, I decided with a fresh mind, so to speak, to read Pushkin at two o’clock in the morning. And you know, it turned out to be not so simple!
36. I am also already a grandfather: I have three grandchildren. Oh, what am I... I have four grandchildren. I'm completely lost...
Source: perly.ru
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Pros and cons of Yeltsin's reign
pros
- Filling store shelves, abundance of goods.
- Development of entrepreneurship, creation of a market economy.
- Citizens were given the opportunity to travel around the world.
- The adoption in 1993 of a new Constitution with the priority of human rights and freedoms, the adoption of modern legislation (labor, civil, tax, etc.).
- Creation of a multi-party system and a professional parliament, guarantees of media independence.
- Improved relations with the West, Russia entered the G8.
- Creation of the CIS and the Union State with Belarus.
Accomplices. What happened to those who “buried” the Soviet Union? More details
Minuses
- The collapse of the USSR.
- Shock reforms in the economy, soaring prices for goods and services.
- A sharp decline in living standards, stratification between rich and poor.
- The emergence of oligarchs, predatory privatization.
- The collapse of industry, army, science, agriculture, etc.
- Wild capitalism, racketeering, financial pyramids, contract killings.
- "Brain drain" abroad.
- Execution of the Supreme Council in 1993
- Wars in Chechnya, the growth of separatism in other republics.
- There are 25 million Russians left outside Russia.
- Excessive concessions to the West, NATO expansion to the east.
“This is a controversial issue - who soldered whom...”
Quotes from the book by former Yeltsin guard Alexander Korzhakov “Demons 2.0. But kings are not real!”
“I almost lost all my health with Yeltsin then. Boris Nikolaevich was an “omnivore”: pour moonshine! Stinking Chinese industrial alcohol - for a sweet soul. Drivers poured this into the windshield washer reservoir, although rarely - there was a terrible smell in the cabin. But I drank EBN with pleasure and didn’t let it be diluted.” “Alcohol could sit “without movement” for months. Yeltsin does not. He and I drank liters of it. They started at 11 a.m. and ended around 9 or 10 p.m. when I took him home.” “Yeltsin was “breaking away,” and for some reason Naina got to me for his drinking - she constantly reprimanded me. In 1996, when he already had his sixth heart attack, she told me: they say, you made him like this, you got him drunk. But this is a controversial issue - who solder whom.” “The script was always the same. Calls me into his office. Coffee table, bottle of Armenian three-star cognac for 8 rubles. 12 kopecks from a special base, that is, not “left”; Borjomi and fruit water - pear or "Tarragon", bottles of 330 g. Different glass containers: 250 g - for Borjomi, 125 - for wine, 50 - for vodka or cognac ... "
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“Suddenly, in my sleep, I heard Naina’s panicked whisper: “Alexander Vasilyevich, Alexander Vasilyevich!” I jumped up: “What happened?” “He got up, probably wanted to go to the toilet, but fell and is lying there!” Everyone was alarmed: in a few hours landing in Shannon , but Yeltsin is nothing... “Why is he wet?” I asked Naina as I dragged the limp presidential body onto the bed. “Yes, he pissed himself, he’s damn drunk!..”” “It was difficult for him, of course, when the doctors said: “You will also be friends with vodka, Boris Nikolaevich, you are not a survivor.” EBN decided to “jump off” strong drinks with the help of champagne... But doctors were considering reasonable quantities, and not a box (12 bottles) in one sitting! I once felt especially sorry for Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusian president came to visit just at the moment of the “champagne treatment.” They sit together for an hour, two, three... The door swings open - Grigoryich stumbles out with round eyes and whispers in my ear with a breath: “Sasha, where is the toilet?” Now the bottom will rip out! I can’t drink that much shampoo, I’m a Belarusian. Do something!""
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