14 years ago today, Yeltsin violently put down impeachment attempt against him

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Posted by Magnetonium on Oct-06-2007 00:31:

14 years ago today, Yeltsin violently put down impeachment attempt against him

Sad day for Russia. The "liberal" and "democratic" Yeltsin 14 years ago to this day has used army to violently put down attempts to impeach him and appoint his prime minister as the new president.

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The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 began on September 21, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin dissolved the country's legislature (Congress of People's Deputies and its Supreme Soviet), which opposed his moves to consolidate power and push forward with unpopular neoliberal reforms. Yeltsin's decree of September 21 contravened the then-functioning constitution; on October 15, after the end of the crisis, he ordered a referendum on a new constitution.

The Congress rejected the decree and voted to remove Yeltsin from presidency through impeachment. His estranged Vice President, Aleksandr Rutskoy, was sworn in accordance with the existing constitution as Acting President. On September 28, public protests against Yeltsin's government began in earnest on the streets of Moscow where the first blood was shed. The army remained under Yeltsin's control, which determined the outcome of the crisis. The legislators found themselves barricaded inside the White House of Russia parliament building. For the next week, anti-Yeltsin protests grew, until a mass uprising erupted in the city on October 2. Russia was on the brink of civil war. At this point the security and military elites threw their support behind Yeltsin, besieged the parliament building, and through the use of tank artillery nearly destroyed the building and cleared it of the elected legislature.

By October 5, 1993, armed resistance to Yeltsin had been crushed. The ten-day conflict had seen the most deadly street fighting in Moscow since the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917. According to government estimates, 187 people had been killed and 437 wounded.

HAIL Yeltsin democracy years! Oh, wait ... Putin is more authoritarian, it seems, than Yeltsin ... how odd ...

Posted by CHRles on Oct-06-2007 00:46:

Yeltsin was a drunken idiot. Didnt he try to fire half his cabinet at one point all in one day?

Putin is smart and tough, but if the Russian people aren't careful he could end up with more power in his hands then Stallin.

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Oct-06-2007 01:05:

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Originally posted by CHRles
Putin is smart and tough, but if the Russian people aren't careful he could end up with more power in his hands then Stallin.

Give me a break! There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that Putin is within a mile of emulating Josef Stalin, the man who made every Soviet tremble with fear of death or banishment.