Boris Yeltsin Tours State of Kansas

The first publicly-elected leader of the former USSR, Boris Yeltsin, came to Kansas to speak with farmers about the abundance of food grown in America. Yeltsin is originally from the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine, and shares differences and similarities in the production of our state's major crop, wheat. During his visit, after he gave a farmer the coat off of his back, Yeltsin stopped by WSU and gave a televised speech from campus. Watch an enthusiastic new world leader speak to Wichitans in 1993.

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