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The last briskout
In the Kremlin
The last briskout
February 1, 2006 Alexander Ryklin
Boris Yeltsin - Musa of domestic publicists. It is customary to talk about him with a slight aspiration. Many even have a gaze. It's like to recall past love. Say what were the years! You are all in white, and I am so courageous. Do you remember this shabby hotel in Syzran? .. In this place you need to start embarrassedly and stupidly smile ... And then you raise your eyes and are horrified: Lord, is it always twenty years older than you? And this cellophane package in the hands ...Yeltsin on the tank, Yeltsin, pinching some kind of aunt beyond the side, Yeltsin, interrupting the unfortunate Gorbachev, Yeltsin, conducting the orchestra, Yeltsin “Voice Heart”, Yeltsin, who overslept an official visit, Yeltsin, barely recovering after the operation, first demanded a nuclear suitcase .... What sweet moments. This is cleaner than a hotel in Syzran. But with Yeltsin, as with women, there is one big problem. He should always remain young. Not in the sense of "healthy complexion, peppy gait and violent hair." God with her, with the hair. But Yeltsin with a dull indifferent look is no longer Yeltsin. Rather, not living Yeltsin. We were all ready to forgive him, but not the absence of “Zagogulin”, which, despite all their absurdity and comic, seemed, no matter how paradoxical it sounds, proof of the presence of the same reinforced concrete rod within this big person. The rod, which not only determined his entire life path, but at the same time, the whole country moved the ground and drove the unknown where. The rod, which, as we wanted to believe, in the key, determining the moments prevents Yeltsin from turning from the once selected path.
The mythologization of the image of the People's Leader at the time of his stay in power is the key that he will be remembered, if not forever, then for a very long time. And all this time (so far, of course, alive) to believe in a miracle and expect these very clogging from him. And forgive him everything.
Yeltsin planted Putin - we said: the family took advantage of the unconsciousness of a sick person and slipped him a gray silent guy, that is only valuable that signed in his loyalty in eternal times. We said: wait, now the grandfather is recovering, he will arrange a fun life for you. And secretly indulged in stupid and childhood dreams about how one day Yeltsin would appear in the Kremlin, go to his office and say to the boy: “Hey, my dear, do you not understand? So I joked then with a resignation. So come on, pack the manat and free the room. And this, like him, take Sechin with you ... And where is Shevchenko? "
And when the work of Yukos unfolded in all its glory, we all expected that now he would definitely say his weighty word. Say, Boris Nikolaevich will not be able to endure what they do ... Yes, no, not with Yukos, of course, with the country. And then there was Beslan, the abolition of the governor's elections, etc. “Yes ...” we sighed, “you see, seriously pressed Yeltsin, since he is still silent. They put it from all sides, they took the children hostage, follow every step. Then you think a hundred times, before saying an extra word. ”
On the eve of his Semida-Setiyale, Boris Yeltsin gave several interviews. In one of them, he, in particular, said: “Of course, I am glad that I was not mistaken, choosing my choice on Vladimir Putin ...”“Yes,” I thought, “to see, they seriously pressed Yeltsin.” But then he stopped short and realized that I did not feel sorry for him anymore and that I am already not expecting anything from him. And that, perhaps, I have to forget about him as a hotel in Syzran.
And only one thing I would like to tell Yeltsin on the day of his anniversary: “And we are, as they are happy, Boris Nikolaevich ...” Alexander Ryklin
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