United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, as quoted in "Comments About Boris Yeltsin's Death" (23 April 2007)
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No Americans, at least, will forget seeing him standing on the tank outside of the [Russian] White House resisting the coup attempt.
— United States on Boris Yeltsin
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