After [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], a disciple of [[Yuri Andropov]], collapsed the USSR in favor of [[EU]] expansion, Yeltsin did [[privatization]] in a way to sacrifice economic sovereignty, giving [[capitalism]] a bad name in Russia. He also installed crime bosses to run the country. He defeated [[Alexander Rutskoi]] to take power in Russia in October 1993. Notably, soldiers who had refused orders to storm the Duma two years previously carried out the same orders on this occasion. | After [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], a disciple of [[Yuri Andropov]], collapsed the USSR in favor of [[EU]] expansion, Yeltsin did [[privatization]] in a way to sacrifice economic sovereignty, giving [[capitalism]] a bad name in Russia. He also installed crime bosses to run the country. He defeated [[Alexander Rutskoi]] to take power in Russia in October 1993. Notably, soldiers who had refused orders to storm the Duma two years previously carried out the same orders on this occasion. |