Yeltsin. Mlechin L.M.

Boris Yeltsin, a native of the peasant family, the grandson of the church headman, the son of the repressed, became one of the leaders of the Communist Party, and then turned into the main critic of the order existing in the USSR and was elected president of post -communist Russia.

Boris Yeltsin became the first chosen people of the head of Russia, and ten years later - the first to voluntarily, unlike Nicholas II, Khrushchev or Gorbachev, left his post. His name went down in history forever, but disputes about this ambiguous political figure will worry our society for a very long time...