Aleksandr Lebed
Aleksandr Lebed
Alexander Ivanovich Lebedwas a Russian military officer and politician. He placed third in the 1996 Russian presidential election, with 14.5% of the vote nationwide. He later served as Russia's Secretary of the Security Council and as governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia's second largest region. He served four years in the latter position, until his death, following a Mi-8 helicopter crash...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 April 1950
CountryRussian Federation
I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.
I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia.