Zyuganov spoke about the refusal of Yeltsin’s offer to take any post
The head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov spoke about the refusal of the offer of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin to take “any post”. Politics words leads RIA News.
At the Territory of Meanings forum, Zyuganov said that he and the former Russian leader were neighbors. According to him, once Yeltsin, after moving to Moscow, made him a career offer, but he refused. Zyuganov stressed that he had never seen a more drunk and treacherous ruler in his life.
“Personally, he offered me any post. I said, “I’d rather shoot myself than take this. You betrayed the country, history, all the conquests of fathers and grandfathers,” Zyuganov said.
The CPRF leader added that he had stated several times in conversations with current Russian President Vladimir Putin and in the State Duma that the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg was specially “built by the Americans.”
Earlier, People’s Artist of Russia Nikolai Burlyaev, now a State Duma deputy and co-author of a bill banning LGBT and childfree propaganda, accused ex-President of Russia Boris Yeltsin of the appearance of LGBT people and “all the abomination” in the country.