I have just read the news via Wikipedia that the former President of Russia Boris Yeltsin has died today from heart failure. Whatever his personal and political faults, Mr. Yeltsin understood how dangerous as well morally and economically bankrupt Soviet Stalinist-Marxism was on individual and collective lives not just within the Soviet Union, but on the international arena as well because the Evil Empire was a patron of countless evil and equally despotic regimes such as Cuba and North Korea to name but only two. Mr. Yeltsin completed what Ronald Reagan, the Blessed Margaret Thatcher and Yeltsin's old friend-turn-bitter rival Mikhail Gorbachev started by dissolving the U.S.S.R. and it's lingering threat to world stability.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Mr. Yeltsin's life is that he even lived as long as the seventy-six years that he enjoyed due to his infamous drink and health problems.
The most fitting epitaph for this paradox of a man should come from Mr. Gorbachev, who has stated that "I offer my deepest condolences to the family of a man on whose shoulders rested many great deeds for the good of the country and serious mistakes -- a tragic fate". The tragic fate that Mr. Gorbachev speaks of is that Mr. Yeltsin has replaced the tyranny of the Communist Party with the tyranny of the Russian Federation's current president, the Neo-Stalinist Vladimir Putin.
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