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Boris Yeltsin — Portrait after a picture by Presidential Press and Information Office (CC BY 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Boris Yeltsin

Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia

1931–2007

2 quotes.

Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country… They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
Appeal to citizens of Russia to oppose the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev. (19 August 1991)
- Freedom
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Statement to a Times reporter in 1990, as quoted in “The wit and wisdom of Boris” in Guardian Unlimited (23 April 2007)
- Life & Death

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