VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY
b. April 25, 1946
LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY
at the moment after his December 1993 triumph
still in the Duma on his sixty-fifth birthday
-- indeed, vice speaker --
(though no longer a member of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
"Boris Yeltsin had been the leader who 'gives us hope'; now in late 1993, in the winter of the Russians' discontent, it was Vladimir Zhirinovsky who, it seemed, inspired hope among the dispossessed and the disadvantaged, but tumult and despair among the political class. ...
"The long-feared specter of 'Weimar Russia' appeared suddenly to have the possibility of real content – or rather, a face and form, and frizzy, short-cropped hair."
from RUSSIA REDUX, Chapter 11
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