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Yeltsin by that time hadn't bought any groceries for close to 30 years as was (and still is) common for the ruling elite in Russia. He probably didn't even full
by m0zg 7y ago
Yeltsin by that time hadn't bought any groceries for close to 30 years as was (and still is) common for the ruling elite in Russia. He probably didn't even fully understand the extent of the scarcity his people were experiencing while he was letting his oligarch friends pillage and burn the remains of the USSR. This is kind of like when Ellen DeGeneres asked Bill Gates how much a banana costs, and his guess was $10.
So the extent of Yeltsin being "amazed" is likely vastly exaggerated here. He was a charismatic hick from the boonies, and being treated as a semi-equal by his peers in the US went to his head quite quickly and hard. He was eager to please. But no one in the West was ever confused about what he was.
- JeremyBanks 7y agoThat was a scene from the fictional TV show Arrested Development. > Lucille: Don’t you judge me. You’re the selfish one. You’re the one who charged his own brother for a Bluth frozen banana. I mean, it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars? Gates' actual guesses were pretty reasonable: https://youtu.be/ad_higXixRA https://youtu.be/ad_higXixRA
- mrguyorama 7y agoI take umbrage to his guesses being reasonable. It's obvious Gates has no idea the cost of things. He isn't even in the right ballpark on most of them, with the floss being the only thing he got. It's pretty sad in my opinion