1987. Speech by Boris Yeltsin at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU
25 years ago, on October 21, 1987, the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee condemned Boris Yeltsin, who performed at the Plenum with criticism of the style of the leadership of Yegor Ligachev and with a request for resignation. Subsequently, apocrypha was distributed in Samizdat - the text of Yeltsin’s speech, written by Mikhail Poltoranin and containing a much more sharp criticism of Ligachev and the appeal to people of labor, absent in a real speech.