Yeltsin suffered Alcoholism-induced Korsokoff's Syndrome.

What ever was the syndrome, a new Era opened for Russia, a new powerful and sovereign country which will rule the world.

@@brianrallen I can’t agree. Korsakov's syndrome is a loss of memory, but Yeltsin was well aware of what was happening, and he perfectly remembered the past.

Чувак он пил.(He does drink and he was old) his conditions were worse than Brezhnev

@@levlev4048 Gorbachev did much worse than him.

in hell you will say🤣

he sold his own country to oligarchs and gangsters...

Former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu also apologized for failing people's hopes and for the suffering of people during his term, 6 months before the end of his term, in July 2000.

@@reggiekrager5411 respect to Emil too.

What country are you from?

@@johnm84probably somewhere in Central Asia.

And what is now?

This is the source: "Дочитав последнюю фразу, он ещё несколько минут сидел неподвижно, и по лицу его лились слёзы», - вспоминает телеоператор А. Макаров" (After reading the last phrase, he sat still for a few minutes, and tears poured over his face," - recalls cameraman A. Makarov.)

because he's a drunktard

Echoeing a Russian renewal and resurgence.

Sounds like wholehearted repentance.

he dont deserve anything

Crappy leader that Yeltsin. Had he not backstabbed Gorbachev, the USSR would've still existed.

@@ruturajshiralkar5566 Gorbachev is a traitor, he opened the doors to the war criminal and mafia America.

@@billadmond9450 Gorbachev tried to save USSR. It was Yeltsin who brought in American Economic Experts, who recommended the "Shock & Awe" policy that destroyed the USSR's economy. Yeltsin also ceded enormous power & influence to the Mafia & Oligarchy. Gorbachev cut down on the expensive Arms Race, Introduced more Liberal-minded and younger Party Members, Tried to change the core of the functioning of the Soviet Economy & Politics. Gorbachev's Glasnost & Perestroika actually hastened the inevitable. Had it not been for Gorbachev then even Russia would've disintegrated.

@@billadmond9450 Gorbachev is not a traitor you ìdìõt. What he wants for the USSR was for it to look like today's China, state-regulated capitalism with government intervention to advance country's interest, still haves the socialist policies such as free college and healthcare and as well as the Communist iron fist rule to maintain political stability and good environment for foreign investors. Its just that he commit mistakes such as applying sociopolitical reforms a.k.a. "democracy" even though what the USSR only needed was economic reforms. He haves good intentions for the union (USSR), its just he don't know what to do and how to get things done. But honestly, if he successfully transformed the USSR into an authoritarian/state capitalist country like today's China and Vietnam, he will be hailed as the 2nd best Soviet leader behind Stalin.

CCCP no longer existed at this time.

@@Maverick.D. I know im just saying life doesnt look so good for him when its gone

I feel sorry for the Russians

Although I'm from Russia((((

Liberal western model is an oligarchy. He actually succeeded in that.

He did not think that, he just did not care. He simply set up a system that would keep him in power and benefit his inner circle.

@@andreyz2436 he did not set up the system. The system set up him so the people with real power could do whatever they wanted. But in the end, here, he admitted the colossal failure. It kinda vindicates him as no one else had ever guts to do that. I wonder, if he drank so much because he understood what was happening. We will never know.

If it was as you, then Yeltsin should have never gotten involved, or tried to push back. His admission is not good enough. And he was known as a drunkard long before he moved to Moscow.

Well, oligarchy is not liberalism (in the classical meaning, not the american one). Oligarchism is antiliberal, because there is not free exchange of goods and services!

Why don't you ask Eldery Russians how they lived in a "dictatorship" you fu*king moron.

Go f*** yourself s****y commie! I'm Russian! Yeltsin never tried to destroy Russian democracy and speech right. He opposed commies like you in the parliament, but never used his power to make himself a new "general secretary". He managed to stop the crisis, to start new economic growth in 1996, to oppose red populists in Duma. He was scorched for 8 years, but all these 8 years there was democracy in Russia.

@@eisenigel6065 He didn't even care about Serbia being bombed. My lived in a socialist country, he had a a great live and job in it. When the country turned capitalist. Milion all over the easter block got fired just like my dad. You are supporting a drunk and pathetic idiot who turned post-soviet Russia in to a hell hole of hell holes with his fuçking democracy. Almost EVERYONE HATED HIM AND A SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY.

@@eisenigel6065 There was no democracy in Russia then, 1996 election proved it when he had only 5% support.

@@andreyz2436 Actually, no. The exit poll of the 1996 election proves that the election wasn't falsified. More than 50% of Russian society were against communists so people voted for the only democratic candidate they had, for Yeltsin. Of course, oligarchy and criminal clans isn't nice thing, but Putin's monarchy is just the pinnacle of what was happening in the 90s, when one of those gray cardinals completely seized power in the country. Anyway, that's much better than turning back to totalitarianism.

And he stopped the red army communist coup. I guess having a pm that instead of keeping the oligarchs away obviously collaborated with them in order to get stinking rich didn't help Yeltsin. I have been hoping and actually praying for things to be good for the Russians since they have suffered a lot and maybe also as a bit older and cynical that Russian leaders have a tendency to attack Sweden and Finland when they want reforms or a need a diversion.

@@matsnordal4802 Yeltsin didn't stop the oligarchs, and that was a huge mistake. Take Lukashenko, for example. He prevented profiteers from bleeding Belarus white. That is one reason why he has been in power so long.

Was he a decent person when he shelled his own parliament and killed thousands of people?

@@glebperch7585 I'm not taking questions on this at the moment. With recent events, emotions are running far too high. Yeltsin apologised to Russia for his mistakes, Gorbachev didn't. That's the difference. Yeltsin recognised his failings.

Yeltsin tried to overthrow the parliament, when they tried to impeach him for being the constitution, he declared they were fired and that the parliament no longer existed. He then had the army fire upon protestors of this decision, and brought tanks to the Russian white house which opened fire on the parliament while the elected officials were still inside. The parliament was dissolved and the government and constitution were replaced with new versions that gave the president all the power, weakening the balance of power needed for a working democracy, allowing for putin to take near absolute control and undo progress towards peace and freedom of speech. He did not do this because he was drunk, he was power hungry. (and drunk)

Ele não era bêbado, ele tinha problemas de saúde.

@@gteixeira também

@@senhordoutorprofessormestr8629 Eu não.

@@gteixeira nem eu

его народ настолько не любил, что когда он выступал на публике, никто на него набросился и не кричал что бы он ушел. а Путина народ насколько любит(по опросу кремлёвских СМИ), что Путин сам боится народной любви

JOE BIDEN ,TAKE NOTES OF THIS

What enemies? You know that western powers actually wanted Russia to be doing good and be stable? I think that you fell victim to the enemy within. Looking at this I get a sense that oligarchs forced him and Putin was holding the gun. Now they have been stealing Russian resources becoming very rich. The only reason this, at least for a start, not being acceptable to many is that it prevented a instable Russia, maybe even a civil war and no-one wanted that.

@@matsnordal4802 "western powers actually wanted Russia to be doing good and be stable" two words: FUCK OFF

Email the youtber who posted it

do you cry for betrayers?? 🤣

Yeltsin, just sad and true facts

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Yes 🤣🤣🤣

It's as though you can feel it from the second word of his speech.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😄😄😄

I mean, he passed away around a decade later. He clearly was in poor health

He died in 2000 due to problems with his sewing jars.

Exactly. I don't see why most people don't get it

Yeah, that was probably his mistake.

Most people consider "00" years as the start of a century

Screw that. It's the year 2000 all the way, plain and simple, they're just numbers.

Im not sure what the lenght of the term for president was back then, but his first term was 5 years from 1991 to 1996...if it would have been another 5 years, then his term would have ended in summer of 2001.

In 1991 there was turmoil, in 1993 the RSFSR fell, in 1996 the next elections, and now 1999 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thats because, as bad as British leaders might have been, Yeltsin was 10 times worse. So in their cases they could try and hide their crimes -- or at least pretend they hid them (king has no clothes type of thing) -- but in Yeltsins case there was no room for pretending: it was way too obvious to all, so he was basically cornered into apologizing. Note how he didn't apologize for anything during his actual reign, so he was trying real hard not to, until he finally was forced to. And by the way I am not saying that he, as a person, is worse than English leaders. I am just saying that in the west there is a "system" that simply won't allow people to cross certain lines, but in Russia that system isn't fully developed. That has good and bad sides. The way in which western system is bad is that it brainwashes people into cookie cutter way of thinking, leads to globalism and eventually to antichrist. But the way in which Western system is good is that it protects people from guys like Yeltsin. Well I would rather have Yeltsin than Antichrist so I would love to go back in time to Yeltsins Russia and all that. But that doesn't change the fact that Yeltsin had a lot to apologize for -- to the point that he no longer had a choice not to

Al Gray- Nick Clegg apologised to the students.

Honesty doesn't change what was done. He help destroyed Soviet Union from the inside and introduced his oligarchs on 90s Russia.

Nope. Putin want only money...

krivorki animator... for some reason I don't believe you.

Thomas THE Zaugg it’s because western propaganda labels pytin as evil

Maybe because Putin played beneath the sheets with the oligarchs, communists and fascists? That would make it difficult to carry out Yeltsins policies and if you look how much of Russian resources that goes directly to Putin and his friends... I wouldn't be surprised if Putin is a well payed puppet of the oligarchs.

@@matsnordal4802 putin still hates commies

lol

7 years remain now. Musk won't fail.

@Robert Ortiz-Wilson Most Russians, especially the old ones that lived in the USSR, regret it collapse. Capitalism destroyed the Russian economy

@@d3th2m3rikkka Yeltsin did not want a full corrupted situation. He wanted a Social Market, a release of controls. He was inspired by Deng reform, but in PRC, Deng removed conservatives from CPC and commited his moves without any opposition. But Yeltsin faced a huge resistance from all sides that even turned to war in Chechenia.

sorry what countries suffered by the west? I know Iraq and Afghanistan but a strong Russia was 10x worse as weve seen in grozny, syria, chechnya...

@@joosttijsen3559sorry but this is the most stupid comment ever. They both suffer the same as much, and somehow Iraq and Afghanistan suffer until today but Georgia and Chechnya had a war for couple of years and recovered already. And the west (USA) is still controlling countries, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan,…. Russia has around 21 military bases abroad while USA has 270. In Germany (where I live) they storage their nuclear bombs also from here (Ramstein) they controlled their drone war in Afghanistan. You know why you think that way? Because America is also controlling your country in some ways lol like almost the whole west. Switzerland is the perfect example how a country acts when it’s not controlled - neutrality.

@@joosttijsen3559and also look at Africa and ask them “who suffered from the west” and they will gladly show you that in their own way. Why you think Africa is so pro-Russian, pro-Chinese? Of course they are also manipulating them becuase the west was stealing everything what Africa had and gave them a kick down on the floor so Russia/China after gave them help to stand up by making several deals which are for both sides advantages. Only the west supports the west, kinda strange, no?

@@nataschka_tscherepaschka lol yeah, ur russian name tells me everything

That would have been hilarious. Too bad the "next day" part didn't happen -- or at least didn't make it to the news.

@@romansverdlov1964 because he was not much more sober the next day, obviously.

Unlike Medvedev, Putin confronted the factory owners.

​@@vlad_47"why didn't you fixed this before now?" "You ran around like cockroaches when I said I was coming"

Plot twist : Yeltsin was Brezhnev since all the time, and Putin is actually Khrushchev undercover

Rafi Mohammad you aren't Russian so fuck off

"Everything", heh?

Anarchy it doesnt mean anything any person can see how yeltsin destroyed russia

@@Svarog88 I am Russian and he is right. Yeltsin was a traitor.

@@usertankist45 я тоже русский, и я его не считаю предателем. I am russian too and i dont think he is a traitor

he wasn't

Around the clock. Suffered the deadly, progressive, irreversible and incurable disease that is killing Russia.

I think his apology was truly sincere. The cameraman recalled that Yeltsin was crying when he finished his speech.

What sober politician would admit his massive failure and ask for forgiveness?

The reason why he is having difficulty talking is because he was almost dead at the time of making this speech from health issues.

I think it just the way some Russian express their emotions. I watched many Russian movies and I found that some Russian especially male, they have like this expression; not expressive but it is the way they are.

@@soyuznesia yeah I think it’s just a Russian thing. Russian also talk like their angry supposedly too.

In this vid no. He was a sick man at the end of his presidency. He even had multiple operations at this point

his biggest mistake was bringing Putin to power

Go back to CNN

October 1993

BigganD ye

Yeltsin was also a dictator, many journalists & protestors were killed brutally in his regime.

Centrist Philosopher Yeltsin was a bastard who sold his country out.

west brit , How did you get to that conclusion that Russia is going backwards, by watching BBC and CNN, can’t believe how some of westerners are brainwashed (read stupid).

west brit Putin fixed Russia's economy and put it on the path to some semblance of recovery from the disaster that was the dissolving of the USSR. Im not a fan of him but to say he's put the country backwards is simply false, indeed the opposite is true.

Boy oh boy do u need a history lesson

@@olliesloane151 oh... you nothing know about russia at the moment...

NN I’m Russian, and I prefer Yeltsin to Putin, because he was a politician, not a kgb officer

And how Putin turned out to be? Real president how recover economy and order. When NATO come on 500km from Moscow it is not America aggressor, no it is Putin how is protecting his country and Donbas. Fucking westerns, read somehting other than propaganda of BBCNN

He was drunk. For decades. Died of Alcoholism.

@@brianrallen I know

@@brianrallen he took the country with him

idk if starving your own citizen makes you a good president

It is sad that russian nation became a dumb nation of Putler's Z-ombies

@@pitioapolo there's Joe Biden