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Boris Yeltsin's Visit to a Houston Supermarket
Boris Yeltsin's first visit to the U.S. was a turning point in his intellectual development, writes Alexander Nekrassov. For someone brought up in drab conditions of communism, even a member of the relatively privileged elite, a visit to a western supermarket involved a full-scale assault on the senses," he says. The Houston experience destroyed the last vestiges of Yeltsin’s belief in the communist system, setting the stage for his becoming the first leader of post-communist Russia.
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