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Feb 21, 2020 · Michael Hagerty/Houston Public Media. Paul Yirga was the manager on duty on Sept. 16, 1989, the day Russian leader Boris Yeltsin visited a Randalls grocery store in the Clear Lake area....
- Michael Hagerty
Apr 7, 2014 · By Craig Hlavaty on April 7, 2014 at 8:29 AM. 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...
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...
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When Boris Yeltsin visited Texas in 1990, he went to a grocery store and was shocked by the abundance of food. This shattered his view of Communism and led to him reforming Russia. With all the Russian spies, how did the government officials not know about the condition of America before this?
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 that day at the Randall’s store (now a Food Town) at El Dorado Boulevard and Highway 3. He was the manager on duty that day.
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Feb 25, 2020 · So perhaps it's no surprise that composer Evan Mack and librettist Joshua McGuire have created an actual opera about it. Yeltsin in Texas premiered last weekend at Opera in the Heights in Houston and will continue through Sunday. It's a comic opera. "The premise in general was that there's nothing more absurd than an American grocery store, and ...
