There’s this really funny story about when Yeltsin was losing desperately to the Communists in 1995, and he decided to campaign on the idea that he was a man of the people. At a campaign stop in a small town, voters complained that they had to subsist on homegrown vegetables because they couldn’t afford to buy food.
“My family loves homegrown vegetables!” Yeltsin piped up happily. “Every spring we plant 8 sacks of potatoes. And then in the Fall we harvest 8 sacks of potatoes.”
In the end, he had to falsify the election to prevent the Communists from winning.
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