Yeltsin's complicity in 1990s corruption in the Kremlin delegitimized Western-style capitalist democracy in Russia; when Putin came to power in 2000, he was positioned to restore order through a return to centralized control, and the public was receptive to this.
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“and Yeltsin was complicit in that as well because of the corruption in the Kremlin um and I think that gave democracy a bad name or western style capitalist democracy about names so when Putin came to power in 2000 he was on a pretty sort of easy Wicket because he was going to turn things around go back to the old trade and trusted system and make the trains run on time”
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How The West Can Stop Putin, with Exiled Critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Intelligence Squared— Intelligence SquaredCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:56:34 PM
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