Russian leader Boris Yeltsin addresses the United States Congress in 1992. Excerpt taken from Great Speeches Volume 10 from Educational Video Group, Inc. available at www.evgonline.com
@@Anonymous163ful While everyone (including you) is entitled to their own opinion and has the right to express it freely (regardless of how unfathomably idiotic that opinion may be), neither you, nor I, or whomever you're referring hereto as "the stupid Soviet cattle" are entitled to speak on behalf of a whole nation and its people; especially, when public opinion is as divided as it is on the subject of Yeltsin... Moreover, personally I hardly think that anyone who is incapable of recognizing the obvious-i.e., that the man was an unintelligent drunkard, buffoon and a self-serving traitor (though, with a rather decent hairdo)-is in a position to be calling other people stupid... But, of course, that's just what I think. You, on the other hand, more than welcome to think whatever you please. However, don't assume that either I or the millions of people of Russia, who don't share your opinion, have given you the right to speak on our behalf, whatever the subject.
Brings tears to your eyes to see that we have somehow moved so far away from this moment. Russia, just based on culture alone, is just as strong as the US. From music, to literature, to art, to sport, they are indeed a powerhouse. We gain nothing from a world in which US-Russia relations are fraught.
The United States missed a unique opportunity to integrate Russia into the Western power system after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., during the Boris Yeltsin government. Instead, they preferred to repeat the stance of the Allied powers towards Germany after World War I - which ended up being the main cause of World War II, a few years later - and to treat the Russians with hostility and humiliation. If a free trade area between Europe and the United States had been created with the inclusion of Russia both in it and in NATO, Russian support today would be of fundamental importance to contain China's strengthening and aggressiveness - but I fear that it will now be too late!
@@4lugan He destroyed Russia, brought it to its knees and forced it to beg for mercy, destroyed democracy, economy, world status, prestige, influence. He drove the population into poverty and death.
@@4lugan He sold his country to the west and oligarchs while people lived in total poverty. He is a pie*ce of absolute shit, something which only Russian people know who lived in those times under him.
@@QWERTY-gp8fd Putin is much better. Better is a great leader and Russia has done very well under Putin. Putin also fixed transformed and rebuilt Russia and Putin fixed the mess caused by Yeltsin and the Communists.
Russia, Central Asia, China, Japan, and Spanish-speaking countries are pretty much the only places in the world where very few speak English. In the past there was never an incentive for Russians to learn English because they didn’t travel the world unless they were wealthy, albeit very few! Lenin and Stalin spoke fluent English, though.
Because they and the stupid people they represented thought they could sit back and relax and socialism would never be a threat again. Wise people know that socialism will ALWAYS be a threat, forever.
I don't know what ya'll talking about, Boris is saying it's great communism won't come back and spread. I mean that is true, China and Russia are much closer to being Capitalists than their previous states of more pure communism.
@@Silligk Oh is it? Really? Until you get an aging population because a socialist society doesn't JUST try to give out "free" healthcare, it comes with a whole lot of other cultural baggage the left as a whole promote every time they get power, anywhere. Marriage rates drop. Childbirths drop. Divorce rates rise. Single parenthood rises. All these things contribute to an aging population leaving the young unable to support the exponentially growing medical costs of the old, like a reversed pyramid. Every European country that has "free" healthcare is dealing with this right now. It's why their refugee crisis exists. They were stupid enough to try to fill in the youth at the tip of this reversed pyramid with foreign migrants from war torn hellholes because they desperately needed young, healthy bodies to fill in their shortfall. Because in all these socialist idiotic European countries, birthrates aren't keeping up with the "free" healthcare systems' cost.
I disagree. 1992 was time of great hope. The destruction of Russian parliament, the destruction of Chechnya, stealing of national property in 1995, the phony election of 1996, the economic devastation of 1998, the appointment of Putin in 1999 didn't happen yet.
such a beautiful speech. WHY didn't we accept the hand Russia had extended to us ..? Instead of posturing, & threatening Russia, as if to say "someone has to pay for these 45 years"
They did, until Russia nationalized the oil and gas sector. The people who run the West are businessmen, not politicians. They wanted Russia's oil and gas.
@@glebperch7585 Corrupt Russian Oligarchs, like Khordorkovsky (but also corrupt US hedge fund managers, like Bill Browder) wanted to sell Russia to the highest bidder. Putin stood in their tracks. That is what has happened, including all this sudden Russian demonization.
The Russians wanted to join NATO, but on their terms. First off, the entire structure of the military would have needed to be changed according to NATO standards. Second, they still saw themselves as more than a mere European nation, and couldn't accept them joining it. If they did, the Alliance would have been an absolute mess. It was probably impossible. If they could have, I'd have been all for it. A free America and Russia working together? That's probably my dream, but it just wasn't tenable, since we had different expectations.
The United States missed a unique opportunity to integrate Russia into the Western power system after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., during the Boris Yeltsin government. Instead, they preferred to repeat the stance of the Allied powers towards Germany after World War I - which ended up being the main cause of World War II, a few years later - and to treat the Russians with hostility and humiliation. If a free trade area between Europe and the United States had been created with the inclusion of Russia both in it and in NATO, Russian support today would be of fundamental importance to contain China's strengthening and aggressiveness - but I fear that it will now be too late!
@@apollon6870 The USSR is a one-party system and any parties are prohibited in it, so he had no choice to get into the government otherwise. Isn't it obvious? Tough anti-communist reforms were required so that the terror of communism did not return, but they didn't listen to him and he was constrained by the internal government, the system and the oligarchy, which brought a new dictator far usurped
@@themostcapitalistpersonint5701 dude, he ordered tanks to shoot at goverment buildings in 1993 during the pro-soviet revolution, he was terrorist himself, and an alcoholic who sold his country out to oligarhs, most russians hate this piece of shit.One party system, and?In saudi arabia there are no partys at all and theyve got more freedom than murica ever had.
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It was always rough there, but certainly, Putin is the worst leader that Russia has, not even his close Medvedev could beat him. Who knows Medvedev, may succeed him.
Honestly, Yeltsin fell from grace after the '91 coup. I think he shouldn't have run in the '94 election. He had his moment, and after that, it was all downhill.
*the worst I'm not communist, but any leader of Soviet Union is better then Yeltsin Example: Russian liberals are trying to prove that Stalin k***ed about 1488 millions of people But Russian liberals who shout with joy, but forget that under Yeltsin, without the Holodomors, gulags, deportations, great purges, the population decreased by ten million people Reasons why Stalin better Yeltsin Stalin won WW2 Yeltsin lost to microscopic republic in which a separatist coup d'état was carried out(Chechnya)
Начальная строка известной песни стала в последнее время как нельзя актуальной. Запад решая свои социально-экономические проблемы сделал ставку на уничтожение России, чтобы получить доступ к нашим ресурсам. Только ресурсная база нашей страны дает западной экономике возможность еще некоторое время просуществовать в нынешнем формате. Жрать меньше западные "гиганты мысли" не собираются, а единственная кладовая доступных запасов полезных ископаемых осталась только в России . По старой доброй привычке эти господа хотят прибрать к рукам чужое добро. Вот и вся подоплека нынешнего обострения русофобии на Западе. Допинговый скандал, дело Скрипалей, шумиха с Навальным, вбросы информационной лжи, сопровождаемые этим финансово-экономические санкции против нас и прочие пакости - это только инструменты достижения сладкой мечты о халяве за наш счет. Путин сделал верный ход, развивая ОПК и Вооруженные Силы. Наиболее верный способ дать отпор западным проискам - это иметь самые сильные армию и флот.
@@Swiss036 hahaha, no. he just hid the corruption and crime from the citizens. he and his friends control the money flow in russia. yeltsin and gaidar can be blamed for selling out russia to oligarchs and they were terrible, but putin is just as bad, albeit for different reasons.
@@iI_Principe Putin tried to control the corruption, but it was already deeply rooted, instead he choose the option of working with the oligarchs, as long as they are loyal to him they get to stay.
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***** lol, nice one
Да!, Герой России! и Русских!.
@@Anonymous163ful Please don't speak on behalf of all of Russia and Russians. To some this is a speech of an idiot (to say the least)...
@@boris_s_s No, I’ll say that the stupid Soviet cattle is not in the right to speak for Russia and slander Boris Nikolaevich.
@@Anonymous163ful While everyone (including you) is entitled to their own opinion and has the right to express it freely (regardless of how unfathomably idiotic that opinion may be), neither you, nor I, or whomever you're referring hereto as "the stupid Soviet cattle" are entitled to speak on behalf of a whole nation and its people; especially, when public opinion is as divided as it is on the subject of Yeltsin...
Moreover, personally I hardly think that anyone who is incapable of recognizing the obvious-i.e., that the man was an unintelligent drunkard, buffoon and a self-serving traitor (though, with a rather decent hairdo)-is in a position to be calling other people stupid...
But, of course, that's just what I think. You, on the other hand, more than welcome to think whatever you please. However, don't assume that either I or the millions of people of Russia, who don't share your opinion, have given you the right to speak on our behalf, whatever the subject.
Brings tears to your eyes to see that we have somehow moved so far away from this moment. Russia, just based on culture alone, is just as strong as the US. From music, to literature, to art, to sport, they are indeed a powerhouse. We gain nothing from a world in which US-Russia relations are fraught.
Nailing it. Unfortunately, the *overlords* from the military industrial complex, including decades long bureaucrats like Biden, have forgotten it.
At this point the only way for that to happen is for Russia to bend the knee and give up whatever interests or self-determination it has.
I hope relations between both countries will once again be at the point where something like this is possible
That and the relations between Russia and the USA in WW2
The United States missed a unique opportunity to integrate Russia into the Western power system after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., during the Boris Yeltsin government. Instead, they preferred to repeat the stance of the Allied powers towards Germany after World War I - which ended up being the main cause of World War II, a few years later - and to treat the Russians with hostility and humiliation. If a free trade area between Europe and the United States had been created with the inclusion of Russia both in it and in NATO, Russian support today would be of fundamental importance to contain China's strengthening and aggressiveness - but I fear that it will now be too late!
@@masoncarreiro3412 WWII wasn't over yet when USUK started working out the Dropshot plan
@@heberpelagio7161 China's aggressiveness...How many countries has China bombed for the last decade?
At this point the only way for that to happen is for Russia to bend the knee and give up whatever interests or self-determination it has.
a beautiful dream
Путин как всегда был прав.
This thing was the leader of my country, what a shame
Why shame?
He was underrated.
@@4lugan He destroyed Russia, brought it to its knees and forced it to beg for mercy, destroyed democracy, economy, world status, prestige, influence. He drove the population into poverty and death.
@@4luganhe was a sold-out and a traitor. His actions brought nothing but misery to my nation
@@4lugan He sold his country to the west and oligarchs while people lived in total poverty. He is a pie*ce of absolute shit, something which only Russian people know who lived in those times under him.
quick reminder that russian life expectancy fell of a cliff after that
In fact it increased dramatically after this. Then came the war...
At least he was not drunk
Ivan Konev, are you talking about the russian Boris Yeltsin or about the brazillian Lula da Silva??!
What do you mean? American presidente have been more drunk…
Russia deserved better than this man.
He was a terrible leader and he weakened Russia and he made Russia worse.
and u think putin is better? lol
@@QWERTY-gp8fd Putin is much better. Better is a great leader and Russia has done very well under Putin. Putin also fixed transformed and rebuilt Russia and Putin fixed the mess caused by Yeltsin and the Communists.
@@QWERTY-gp8fdyes, Putin better
@@ГОООООООООЛ putin plunged russia into chaos. he is chinese spy.
@@QWERTY-gp8fd Putin is not a traitor to our country, that's for sure.
I didn't know he didn't speak English! Not that I'm judging him; it's not like I speak Russian! In fact, Boris Yeltsin is a hottie in my book!
Ashley Worden sorry girl but presidents of foreign countries don’t have to speak your language
@@olegoleg1838 Eh. English has kinda become the de facto lingua franca of the world, or at least in the Western World.
@@bradyh1782 Its pretty much the diplomatic language.
Russia, Central Asia, China, Japan, and Spanish-speaking countries are pretty much the only places in the world where very few speak English. In the past there was never an incentive for Russians to learn English because they didn’t travel the world unless they were wealthy, albeit very few! Lenin and Stalin spoke fluent English, though.
That guy was a joke...... it was a dark comedy indeed! I think no one in Russia have even the slightest respect for that drunk man!
Truly so. Yeltsin and Putin are terrorists
A dark comedy that cost my country a lot of lives. We despise him deeply.
Ельцин очень любил Америку и дружил с Клинтон ом и Бушом старшим
Откуда все эти видео повылезли,где они были раньше.
CIA agent
Ahahah
fucking you don’t understand, commie.
BERNIE SANDERS
Anonymous163ful
No you don’t understand shit bastard.
Lol he said popularly elected. No one elected him.
Wikipedia entry: *High treason*
aye..treason
@@TheBlueCream ???
Yeltsin quite literally shelled his opposition with tanks. A true American hero.
0:2:30 why usa congress applause even communism existed on their land?
Because they and the stupid people they represented thought they could sit back and relax and socialism would never be a threat again. Wise people know that socialism will ALWAYS be a threat, forever.
I don't know what ya'll talking about, Boris is saying it's great communism won't come back and spread. I mean that is true, China and Russia are much closer to being Capitalists than their previous states of more pure communism.
@@thisisaname5589Socialism is a great advantage to a society, look at europe...Having healthcare without worrying about going bankrupt is great
@@Silligk Oh is it? Really? Until you get an aging population because a socialist society doesn't JUST try to give out "free" healthcare, it comes with a whole lot of other cultural baggage the left as a whole promote every time they get power, anywhere. Marriage rates drop. Childbirths drop. Divorce rates rise. Single parenthood rises. All these things contribute to an aging population leaving the young unable to support the exponentially growing medical costs of the old, like a reversed pyramid.
Every European country that has "free" healthcare is dealing with this right now. It's why their refugee crisis exists. They were stupid enough to try to fill in the youth at the tip of this reversed pyramid with foreign migrants from war torn hellholes because they desperately needed young, healthy bodies to fill in their shortfall. Because in all these socialist idiotic European countries, birthrates aren't keeping up with the "free" healthcare systems' cost.
@@korpiklaaniband2277 Can you predict the future?
Nice, meaningful words, if not the successor installation
The audacity to create a blundorous catastrophe at home and then defend it from the foreign grounds
I disagree. 1992 was time of great hope. The destruction of Russian parliament, the destruction of Chechnya, stealing of national property in 1995, the phony election of 1996, the economic devastation of 1998, the appointment of Putin in 1999 didn't happen yet.
such a beautiful speech. WHY didn't we accept the hand Russia had extended to us ..?
Instead of posturing, & threatening Russia, as if to say "someone has to pay for these 45 years"
They did, until Russia nationalized the oil and gas sector. The people who run the West are businessmen, not politicians. They wanted Russia's oil and gas.
because they had eastern europe by the throat with their other hand.
@@glebperch7585 infantile nonsense gleb.
@@glebperch7585 Corrupt Russian Oligarchs, like Khordorkovsky (but also corrupt US hedge fund managers, like Bill Browder) wanted to sell Russia to the highest bidder. Putin stood in their tracks. That is what has happened, including all this sudden Russian demonization.
The Russians wanted to join NATO, but on their terms. First off, the entire structure of the military would have needed to be changed according to NATO standards. Second, they still saw themselves as more than a mere European nation, and couldn't accept them joining it. If they did, the Alliance would have been an absolute mess.
It was probably impossible. If they could have, I'd have been all for it. A free America and Russia working together? That's probably my dream, but it just wasn't tenable, since we had different expectations.
1:03 - I spy Newt Gingrich....
Invite putin now
The United States missed a unique opportunity to integrate Russia into the Western power system after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., during the Boris Yeltsin government. Instead, they preferred to repeat the stance of the Allied powers towards Germany after World War I - which ended up being the main cause of World War II, a few years later - and to treat the Russians with hostility and humiliation. If a free trade area between Europe and the United States had been created with the inclusion of Russia both in it and in NATO, Russian support today would be of fundamental importance to contain China's strengthening and aggressiveness - but I fear that it will now be too late!
Héber Pelágio you are just a racist. For five thousand years, China never invade a single foreign country.
@@yeshiyangzom8532 ya but they sure do like death camps
Just watched Tucker's interview with Putin.
Same
Same
Same
PEACE!
Was a great leader of wourld history
a fool, traitor and alcoholic
@@apollon6870 It's about the harmful bloody squalid commies
@@themostcapitalistpersonint5701 he was himself in the communist party
@@apollon6870 The USSR is a one-party system and any parties are prohibited in it, so he had no choice to get into the government otherwise. Isn't it obvious? Tough anti-communist reforms were required so that the terror of communism did not return, but they didn't listen to him and he was constrained by the internal government, the system and the oligarchy, which brought a new dictator far usurped
@@themostcapitalistpersonint5701 dude, he ordered tanks to shoot at goverment buildings in 1993 during the pro-soviet revolution, he was terrorist himself, and an alcoholic who sold his country out to oligarhs, most russians hate this piece of shit.One party system, and?In saudi arabia there are no partys at all and theyve got more freedom than murica ever had.
Could he communicate with George HW Bush?
Стыдно за руководство России того времени
Traitor
Look at Russia now. Happy about Ukraine?
putin:and i took that personally
Всё правильно сказал. Молодец.
Great man, great speech
Great Drunken man!
Shame of Russia. Great lier.
Если президент США выведет американские войска из Европы и Японии и вернет нам Аляску , мы тоже назовем его грейтманом
He sold his country out and was a drunken bum .an American puppet .
because she is a foolish
so much betrayal
Still love USSR
Was a great leader of world history
Was he now?... And what exactly was so great about him as a leader?
A great drunker, a "great " traitor , a great idiot he was and will be remembered .
Lost to Chechnya,.
Ukrainian President after Pope Francis, unite.
Man of kindness
he was a dictator
@@imaginegettingthat.99slopp7It's Yeltsin. Not Putin
@@Melan_XolicПочитай историю. Слава России
@@imaginegettingthat.99slopp7 even worse, he was a traitor
Traitor.
When Benny Hills alcoholic Russian cousin, had the nuke codes! I slept better than now oddly 🤔
Пьяный предатель. Но за то сознался в своей ошибки не как Горбачёв.
0:14-
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This guy got jokes
Prese pijano in prodan zahodu.
Oh how history could've turned out different to today :/
He meant it
traitor
An underrated man.
He was a moron.
Boris Yeltsin put democracy
Such inspiring words and sentiment. But now Putin has taken a blow torch to it, taking Russia back 1000 years at the same time.
Пиндос, Твои Ельцин, угробил половины России, Уничтожил заводы, не платил людям зарплату.пенсии. Мы живём намного лучше! Слава России
It was always rough there, but certainly, Putin is the worst leader that Russia has, not even his close Medvedev could beat him. Who knows Medvedev, may succeed him.
Honestly, Yeltsin fell from grace after the '91 coup. I think he shouldn't have run in the '94 election. He had his moment, and after that, it was all downhill.
He would have been heartbroken if he saw what's happening today :(
best ruler russia ever had
Before or after he stormed elected parliament on a tank?
This must be a joke
*the worst
I'm not communist, but any leader of Soviet Union is better then Yeltsin
Example:
Russian liberals are trying to prove that Stalin k***ed about 1488 millions of people
But Russian liberals who shout with joy, but forget that under Yeltsin, without the Holodomors, gulags, deportations, great purges, the population decreased by ten million people
Reasons why Stalin better Yeltsin
Stalin won WW2
Yeltsin lost to microscopic republic in which a separatist coup d'état was carried out(Chechnya)
@@5ouma501 with Yeltsin Russia could have become rich and prosperous. Look at Russia now: a poor country without any growth.
@@Turalcar but he had imperfections too.
Начальная строка известной песни стала в последнее время как нельзя актуальной. Запад решая свои социально-экономические проблемы сделал ставку на уничтожение России, чтобы получить доступ к нашим ресурсам. Только ресурсная база нашей страны дает западной экономике возможность еще некоторое время просуществовать в нынешнем формате. Жрать меньше западные "гиганты мысли" не собираются, а единственная кладовая доступных запасов полезных ископаемых осталась только в России . По старой доброй привычке эти господа хотят прибрать к рукам чужое добро. Вот и вся подоплека нынешнего обострения русофобии на Западе. Допинговый скандал, дело Скрипалей, шумиха с Навальным, вбросы информационной лжи, сопровождаемые этим финансово-экономические санкции против нас и прочие пакости - это только инструменты достижения сладкой мечты о халяве за наш счет. Путин сделал верный ход, развивая ОПК и Вооруженные Силы. Наиболее верный способ дать отпор западным проискам - это иметь самые сильные армию и флот.
Dar Che bachete
Совок, чё там по Угледару?
@@user-qh4oq4yz7c что по Авдеевке?
@@Adil-ig3gs только что закопал ваших pycнявыx "мальчиков в трусиках" в Чернозём
at least better than Trump and Putin!!!
Now CHILE needs a great and strong man like Mr Boris Yeltsin, PIÑERA aprende
yeltsin era 1 borracho inútil jajajaja lol
yeltsin wasnt a great man mate.
if Chile is on path of selfdestruction and humilation, than someone like this guy would be a perfect choice. Consider garby as well
NO CC COMMUNISM CC....CZAR OKAY.
Ah, that time America and Russia were friends after the Cold War...
shove that kind of friendship deeper up your ass.
At this point the only way for that to happen is for Russia to bend the knee and give up whatever interests or self-determination it has.
And then came Putin.
Putin saved russia what are you saying?
@@Swiss036 hahaha, no. he just hid the corruption and crime from the citizens. he and his friends control the money flow in russia. yeltsin and gaidar can be blamed for selling out russia to oligarchs and they were terrible, but putin is just as bad, albeit for different reasons.
@@iI_Principe Putin tried to control the corruption, but it was already deeply rooted, instead he choose the option of working with the oligarchs, as long as they are loyal to him they get to stay.
@@Swiss036 Your comment aged like rotten milk because you're losing against Ukraine! XD!!!
@@lenini056Пиндос, иди Вьетнам, Скажи, Афганистан. Скажи, позорник. Слава привет
И не стыдно, алкоголик!
🇺🇦 🔱
Traitor