Yeltsin belonged to those who make history. He was of a kind of people who inexorably march toward power. For them, power is perhaps the only thing that brings pleasure all the time. Everything else gives only brief joy. For our happiness, Yeltsin came to power and remained in power with the help of the mechanism of democracy. Breaking with historical tradition, Yeltsin stopped oppressing his subjects and forcing us violently into a bright future. It’s hard to say that people were very grateful for that.