The destruction of the Soviet empire could not have taken place without many errors, crimes and other extremely unpleasant moments. Someone had to decide on the first step and take responsibility for everything that happened in a huge country. Such a man was found. He became the first president of Russia.
The monument to Yeltsin was opened for viewing on February 1, 2011. On this day he would have turned eighty, this anniversary was timed to coincide with the construction of the monument in Yekaterinburg, a city in which Boris Nikolaevich is well remembered. Here he led the regional party organization for a long time, and the style of his work was quite authoritarian. The opening ceremony was attended by President Medvedev and his wife, they really liked the monument.
The ceremony took place on the birthday of Yeltsin, when people remembered all the good and bad, associated with the period of his leadership of the country.
There were many dissatisfied with the activities of the first President. You can even say that a lot, and at the end of his reign their number was characterized as the vast majority.
The economic stagnation caused by the severance of economic ties, the loss of control, the unpunished total theft and an almost complete halt to production threatened hunger in the potentially richest country in the world. Humanitarian aid came from abroad , which was often collected on the principle of “what is worse for us”, and which was clearly mocking, the parliament building was shot from the turret guns of the tanks of the Russian Army, a war was underway in Chechnya led by mediocre commanders. The possibility of the collapse of Russia into small hostile principalities, which foreign governments could easily establish control over, became quite real.
Already in August, the monument to Yeltsin, the first President of the new Russia, was desecrated, it was flooded with blue beauty. In itself, any fact of vandalism is regrettable, the dead do not have a shame, but the hooligans who committed this crime tried to justify it with their political views.
The sculptor Frangulyan, who had previously created a tombstone for Yeltsin, used white marble as a material. By this he expressed his attitude to the image of the President, who opened up new opportunities for Russia by rejecting the communist idea. Despite the many troubles that hit the people in troubled times, the general meaning of the transformations was true.
The monument to Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg is not liked not only by political opponents of the first President of the Russian Federation, his artistic merits are criticized. So, the face of some people seems inexpressive, and the entire monument is weakly reflecting the essence of this undoubtedly outstanding personality, capable of the most unusual manifestations of emotions.
Be that as it may, the main criteria for the success of the composition were its assessments by family members, the widow of Naina Iosifovna, friends and relatives. They better know what Yeltsin was like. The monument is dynamic, it’s moving, as it were, and it was Boris Nikolaevich who made mistakes and deeds, who managed to voluntarily give up power.