We literally bragged on the cover of time magazine that we intentionally worked to get yeltsin elected (obviously, a country trying to get a leader elected that's more beneficial to them is jot exactly a wild idea)

And our involvement wasn't just making racist Facebook posts about minorities in Russia to get racists to vote for him.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I learn something new every day on this website.

I feel like this should be a site emoji.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Dems complaining about Russia posting racist Facebook memes and acting like it's justification to bomb Moscow is shockingly hypocritical, even for liberals.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

It's also fun to read about the anticommunist media campaign in favor of Yeltsin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election#Pro-Yeltsin_media_bias

Today, this would be considered propaganda by the authoritarian Putler, but in 1996 this was wholesome 100 democracy.