Most of the oligarchy made a choice in favor of Putin, including because they considered him a weak-willed, gray mouse. But appearances were deceiving.</p>

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And the mouse grew into a terrible monster that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.</p>

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It must be said that Putin's somewhat harmless appearance and deceptive gentleness allowed him to move upward. The oligarchs were more afraid of the stern Lebed, the noisy and even hysterical Zhirinovsky, than someone from the Yeltsin family cohort.</p>

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There were also different approaches to Zyuganov's account. Part of the elite wanted to accustom the leader of the Communist Party, and make him acceptable. There were also red oligarchs, and a mass of directors.</p>

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But Zyuganov's team is too big and he didn't want to give bribes to everyone again and fat and pieces. They preferred, as it seemed, the safe Putin, who did not even have his own team.</p>

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And slipped the party "Unity", or the bear as it was called in the common people. And, of course, it was formed primarily by Boris Berezovsky: Yeltsin's eminence grise, and the most influential figure in the Kremlin. It was he who eliminated Boris Nemtsy, whom "Tsar" Boris pulled to be his successor.</p>

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Yeltsin really wanted to make Boris Efimovich his heir. But he very stupidly turned the officials against himself by offering to transfer them to the Volga, and in general began to demand to share with the people. And a hidden struggle began against Boris Efimovich.</p>

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So it was not him who was put into the prime minister, which would have been much more natural, but Kiriyenko. But no one has yet prepared the latter as a successor, and Yeltsin himself, too.</p>

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Oddly enough, Boris wanted to use Kiriyenko to dissolve the State Duma.</p>

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Moreover, there was a plan of the oligarchs, new elections and not to announce. Moreover, the communists, headed by the narrow-minded Zyuganov, themselves gave rise to the cancellation of the elections to the State Duma.</p>

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They proposed an amendment to the election law, according to which, in order to take part in the elections, parties must re-register within a year. And not one party has not passed by this moment.</p>

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Zyuganov, of course, showed himself to be an idiot. The oldest head of the communists in history, weak, conservative, unpleasant in appearance, absolutely devoid of charisma.</p>

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The most convenient for the role of the head of the most powerful, communist opposition.</p>

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There is no spark of God in him, and he symbolizes all the shortcomings of the Communist Party, and even for thirty years of so-called leadership, he is tired of the electorate, and has grown old, and generally walks a little.</p>

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Of course, it is easiest to deal with someone like Zyuganov. Although Gennady is trying to show the appearance of the opposition.</p>

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Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a spoiler for the Communist Party, back in Yeltsin's time. But a spoiler who himself almost became the president and the main opposition.</p>

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And they began to crush and press him even earlier than Lebed. But then Zhirinovsky became a de facto vassal, first of Yeltsin, and then of Putin.</p>

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The last time Zhirinovsky criticized Yeltsin was in the spring of 1997... After that, his coloring changed, and he began to support power.</p>

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Vladimir Putin was initially wary of Zhirinovsky. He believed that Volfovich became a friend of the Kremlin because of cowardice and self-interest.</p>

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Moreover, Zhirinovsky voted against impeachment, having lost half of his supporters.</p>

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And this also did not paint the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party.</p>

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But then they became friends with Zhirinovsky. And if it were not for the sudden illness and stupid death from the coronavirus, then he would probably have given him the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called over time. When Vladimir Volfovich was buried, he personally said goodbye to him. Thus ended the life of the brightest politician, who shone with great wit.</p>

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The bright stars of the nineties: Lebed, Nemtsov, Ampilov, Limonov - have gone to the next world. Yavlinsky has almost lost importance and forgotten, like Garry Kasparov. Berezovsky was hanged - he knew and talked too much.</p>

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Only Zyuganov remained from the old galaxy of the nineties. Rutskoi is also forgotten. Well, maybe Zorkin, who is formally kept as the chairman of the constitutional court.</p>

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Of the first generation of CIS presidents, only Lukashenka remained in power.</p>

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Also a smart fox. But he managed to involve in the network and confuse him well.</p>

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Putin did not like Lukashenka, but outwardly he pretended to be a friend. Naturally, keeping in mind and fallback options.</p>

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For a long time, Vladimir Putin was terribly lucky, even in small things. For example, Skripal was poisoned on the eve of the elections, and the fire in Kemerovo happened a couple of days after the elections.</p>

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But if it were the other way around, it would be a few percent less.</p>

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Yes, and Grudinin foolishly set himself up with his foreign accounts.</p>

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