His approval ratings were in the single digits. And Bill Clinton told his team, I want this guy to win so bad it hurts. So he mobilized all of his resources. Right before the election, Yeltsin received hundreds of a huge pile, billions of dollars from the International Monetary Fund to distribute among the oligarchs and all the others who controlled votes. A team of Americans went to Moscow and introduced techniques like focus groups and advertising to create fears that they detected among people in these focus groups, techniques that had never been used in Russia before. (53:28–53:41)
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Asserts IMF funds were used to support Yeltsin's reelection.
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