If you were any other man I would have ignored you where you stand...
Personally I see both sides here as very flawed. The parliament wanted to perhaps, ultimately, return to failed communism. Yeltsin would wound up installing a constitution that made his office much too powerful, and repressed the press too much. Little to no checks and balances=worse government.
Yeltsin wasn't really that much of a saint by any means.
(TW: Mild Soviet nostalgia) Yeltsin led to the near destruction of Russia through his disastrous economic policies and he led to the rise to power of first the oligarchs and then Putin by not only creating the "rules to play by" for the Russian President but also by making Putin the only real alternative to his economic policies. He also led to two bloody and useless wars in Chechnya(Yes Putin led the second, but Yeltsin caused both). And I haven't even mentioned his cynical use of populism to illegally destroy the Soviet Union. He also stole at least one election and repressed political opposition. Almost regardless of what the Soviet did, it could not be any worse then him.
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