• curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    It happened in the late 90’s, but wasn’t revealed until about 2008 or 2009 (a year or two after Boris Yeltsin died). No, there is no video, at least none any of us would have access to.

    He was the President at the time.

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      4 months ago

      I never heard this. But I’m surprised his security didn’t stop this. And just send someone out to get a pizza for him.

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        4 months ago

        Agents stopped him, but I’d remind that this was not that long after the USSR was dissolved, and he was apparently fairly skilled (even drunk) at evading his own security detail.

        It happened multiple times during the same trip iirc, and agents did get him pizza.

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          4 months ago

          I’m just imagining him climbing out of a bathroom window and sliding down a drain pipe, while screaming, “none of you understand me I hate all of you!”