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“On December 9, 1994, Yeltsin issued a statement ordering the Federal army to execute the disarmament of all illegal armed units in Chechnya, or as they were known locally, the government.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Remember we Azeris had barely a single general. But I was the one who got the Russian army out of our country.
Remember, I talked in Turkish through a translator to Yeltsin, not in Russian, something that was never done before. Yeltsin once hit his spoon on Akayev's head, but I refused to let them do such things to me.”
― Ebulfez Elchibey

“However unpopular Yeltsin may have been, traditionalist loyalty was already being forcefully redirected toward the new powers of the presidency. There is a story that so clearly and beautifully illustrates this that I will recount it here, though I cannot, unfortunately, remember where I read it. A journalist was speaking with an old woman who lived in poverty. The woman was going on, tearing Yeltsin apart, while speaking wistfully of the Soviet regime. When the journalist asked her whom she would support in the upcoming presidential election, she answered, 鈥榊eltsin鈥�. 鈥楤ut what about Zyuganov?鈥� 鈥榃hen Zyuganov鈥檚 president, we鈥檒l vote for Zyuganov.鈥� There were a great many such old women; in fact everyone, including both Yeltsin鈥檚 active opponents and the democrat-intellectuals, was to one degree or another an old lady of this kind. The fear of a change in power, of a return to revolutionary chaos, proved stronger than dissatisfaction with the government. Yeltsin鈥檚 supporters鈥� avowals that power would not be handed to the Communists even if they won the election, which in some countries would have stirred mass indignation, worked in the president鈥檚 favour in Russia.”
― Dmitrii Furman, Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System