Yeltsin is a metaphor for the shattered state of health to which the capitalist counterrevolution he led has brought the once mighty Soviet Union.
History records mad monarchs who brought their country to a state of ruin.
Russia today is ruled by a presidential dictator, who is overseeing the destruction of his country. And now that the specter of a Left, Left-Center Patriotic victory in the Dec. 17 parliamentary elections looms, they and their compradore capitalist henchmen in Russia are in frantic search for a way to prevent such a peaceful democratic victory. The political situation in Russia is now far more complicated than before. Were honest elections held in December, the odds are for a victory of the Left- Patriotic forces. To stem this mounting movement for a government of national salvation will not be easy.