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Feb 21, 2020 · But on Sept. 16, 1989, Yeltsin just wanted to catch a glimpse of everyday American life. So, during his visit to NASA, he asked to check out a local grocery store. Paul Yirga answered the phone ...
- Michael Hagerty
Apr 7, 2014 · 10. A post earlier this year on Houston’s Reddit that mentioned late Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to a trip to the Houston Chronicle ...
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Sep 13, 2017 · In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism. It was Sept. 16, 1989, and Yeltsin, then newly-elected to the new Soviet ...
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Boris Yeltsin’s 1989 visit to a Texas supermarket has inspired an opera. Yeltsin salutes capitalism in Moscow in 1993. Before he was premier of Russia, Boris Yeltsin was the former mayor of Moscow and a member of the Russian Parliament who, in September of 1989, traveled to Houston to visit the Johnson Space Center.
Russian leader Boris Yeltsin waves as he enters a Randall’s grocery store in Clear Lake in 1989. His name: Boris Yeltsin. Yes, that Boris Yeltsin. He’d been the mayor of Moscow, and two years later, he’d play a significant role in the end of communism in Russia. He’d also later serve as that nation’s first post-Soviet president.
Jan 12, 2022 · Starting out as a Randall’s in 1984, this grocery store served an important role only a few years later as an impromptu stop by Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin. Aiming to see how “average Americans” lived, many have drawn a direct line between Yeltsin’s experience and his later role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
