{"id":17312,"date":"2022-04-25T06:16:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17312"},"modified":"2022-04-25T06:16:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:16:54","slug":"17312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17312","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The events of September\u2013October 1993 would lead to armed conflict in the centre of Moscow, the worst fighting there since 1917, and very nearly to full-scale civil war. The motives and behaviour of both sides remain extremely puzzling to this day. After the conflict was over, US President Bill Clinton said Yeltsin had \u2018bent over backwards\u2019 to avoid bloodshed; however, there is accumulating evidence that bloodshed is exactly what he wanted \u2013 to do militarily what he could not do politically: destroy the opposition, suspend the constitution, and unilaterally redress the balance between executive and legislative powers to create a <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">super-presidency<\/span>. That is exactly what he got.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Charles Clover,\u00a0<i>Black Wind, White Snow<\/i>, (<span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">New Haven<\/span>: <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Yale University Press<\/span>, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2016), 214<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The events of September\u2013October 1993 would lead to armed conflict in the centre of Moscow, the worst fighting there since 1917, and very nearly to full-scale civil war. The motives and behaviour of both sides remain extremely puzzling to this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17312\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}