Zyuganov told how Yeltsin offered him «any post», but he refused

SOLNECHNOGORSK (Moscow region), July 30 Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said that the former president Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin offered him «any post», but he refused, answering that «it would be better to shoot himself» than to accept it. Denis Kurochkin, one of the participants in the Territory of Meanings forum, raised the topic of the «relevance of the existence» of the Yeltsin Center. Zyuganov took the floor and said that he and Yeltsin were neighbors, he made him a career offer, but he refused. «Here is one of those who lived next to Yeltsin — he is above me, a floor above … When he moved to Moscow «, he was given this post, I oversaw Moscow. I am uncomfortable and ashamed to speak, but I have never seen a more drunken and treacherous ruler in my life. Personally, he offered me any post. I said: «I would rather shoot myself than accept this. You betrayed the country, history, all the conquests of fathers and grandfathers,» he said. According to the politician, he repeatedly told both Russian President Vladimir Putin and from the rostrum of the State Duma that the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg «was specially built for us by the Americans» .July 28, 10:14 Zyuganov called the condition for uniting with the Social Revolutionaries