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erronis

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10. I also think that Yeltsin was not top of his game - enjoyed the vodka perhaps a bit much.

Reply to brush (Reply #8)

Thu Apr 7, 2022, 02:47 PM

Apr 2022

Altho some other figures in history have done so and kept on their feet - Sir Winston Churchill, for example. He might have been already manipulated by the ex-KGB forces.

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