Boris Yeltsin Toured a Texas Supermarket. He Said Not Even the Politburo Had This.

On September 16, 1989, after touring NASA's Johnson Space Center, Boris Yeltsin made an unplanned stop at an ordinary Randalls supermarket in Clear Lake, Texas. The man who had sat in the Soviet leadership walked the aisles asking prices, questioning staff, and reportedly saying that not even the Politburo had this kind of choice. On the flight out of Houston, he sat in silence with his head in his hands. Two years and three months later, the Soviet Union no longer existed. 🏙️ Subscribe to The Silent Union for more forgotten stories of Soviet-era grandeur, secret cities, and the empire that built and then lost them. Disclaimer: This video is created for educational and historical documentation purposes. It presents publicly available historical facts, figures, and dates to the best of our research, and does not endorse or condemn any political system or government. Quotes attributed to Boris Yeltsin during the visit come from press reports and later biographies and are presented as such. Historians do not attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union to any single event. Viewers are encouraged to consult primary historical sources for further research. #BorisYeltsin #ColdWar #SovietHistory #1989 #Houston Music: "Static Motion" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/