Frank pours one out for the first democratically elected president in Russian history, who died today at 76. His legacy will live on in two indelible images: sitting atop one of many tanks with which he sieged the Russian White House to smoke out a band of deputies holed up there, and swiping the baton from a conductor before drunkenly leading an orchestra in Berlin. Remember his appearance at the end of Street Fighter 2?

Wait a minute: that was his archnemesis, Mikhail Gorbachev. Stick around ’til the very end for a sweet dance number.

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