Did Boris Yeltsin really say 'The Soviet Union is dead. Long live Russia!'?

Boris Yeltsin Quote Source & Citation:

The Soviet Union is dead. Long live Russia!

— Boris Yeltsin Contemporary · First Russian Federation president

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Speech after the collapse of the USSR

Date: 1991

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