Boris Yeltsin Quotes
There must not be a party monopoly on power.
This quotation is very significant because it was a complete repudiation of the fundamental principle of the Government of the Soviet Union--namely, that the government should be under the perpetual control of a single political party, the Communist Party.
Boris Yeltsin, 1931-2007, Mayor, Moscow (Russia), President, Russian Republic, Speech, February 5, 1990
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian and former Soviet politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, he later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with conservatism and Russian nationalism.
