Lately I have been seeing a lot of shit about Biden calling Putin a "killer". My thinking is like "okay, the guy was in the KGB, he likely has been involved in killing in some way". Why is this a "gotcha?". Guess what, I have killed. If that makes me a killer, then so be it. I'm not a murderer, just a former artillery officer. I don't fool myself into believing the 155s we fired were actually filled with gummy bears. Is this some woman bullshit? That killing is the ultimate evil but for them the ultimate good as long as it is an unwanted baby or somebody who donated to FOX news? I do not really have a point, other than this is just more bullshit.
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Dude, he literally worked for Yeltsin, helping to ensure the "security" of this system from uppity citizens. (Before and after his stint as a gangster, when he helped doing the literal plundering.)
Yes, that's why he was recommended to run for Prime Minister by those oligarchs and Yeltsin. It's just that he wasn't as friendly to them as they expected. It's obvious that you can't just steal from a country forever, you actually need to build it up too.
He gave Yeltsin and his family life immunity and he kept his word.
Remember that Yeltsin had less than 2% popular support in early 1999 and if any opposition came to power he and his (crime) family and drinking pals (actually called "the family" as well) would get bad ends for their many crimes.
Even the incredibly corrupt (the symbol of this era, who after a journalist wanted to expose him just sent his "honest" officers to give him some "leaked documents", really a briefcase bomb that killed him in a train station because why not public terrorism when we're at it, and these officers got convicted for that yet he stayed at the post until the dismissal in 1996 for just how much he bungled Chechnya after helping Yeltsin to convince to invade Chechnya in first place when he promised he will pacify it in 1 day) Yeltsin's defense minister "Pashka Mercedes" (the nickname from how he got many luxery cars from selling the East Germany garrison's Soviet arsenal on black market) got to head the state arms export industry until near his death. He was buried as a Hero of Russia.