Where are the people who cried “Yeltsin! Yeltsin!” now? They thought that they’d be living like people in the U.S. and Germany, but they ended up living like the people in Colombia. We lost…we lost our country…Back then, there were fifteen million of us communists! The Party could have…It was sold out…Out of fifteen million people, not a single leader emerged. Not one! While the other side had its leader—Yeltsin! We stupidly let it all slip through our fingers! Half of the country was waiting for us to win. We were no longer one nation, we had already split into two.
