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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Boris Yeltsin mainly in his 2022 sessions on the war in Ukraine, to contrast the way the West treated him with the way it treats his successors. He comes back several times to the same fact: Yeltsin was, he says, the only modern head of state to have had tanks fire on his own Parliament, with about 150 dead who, in his view, are never talked about1. He stresses that Yeltsin was nonetheless the West's "darling" or "favourite", presented as a hero23. He describes the Russia of that period as plundered and humiliated, led by a "drunkard" who held the nuclear button4. He gives examples: half the factories shut down on the pretext of pollution, 700 billion flowing out to tax havens5, and the World Bank and the IMF running Russian affairs without arousing any hatred6. He also recalls that Yeltsin was in power during the bombing of Yugoslavia.

1. 1#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 1:27:29
2. 2#8 Philosopher sous la menace27 Jan 2022 · 37:39
3. 3AFRIQUE SAHÉLIENNE ET IMPÉRIALISME : Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - avec Dominique PAGANI23 Mar 2024 · 1:32:42
4. 4#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 36:49
5. 5#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 46:31
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard ou "L'idéologie dominante"26 Apr 2023 · 1:15:46

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