Found in the Economist, April 28, 2007 obituary for Boris Yeltsin:
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling the hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the grey, stagnating, totalitarian past into a bright, rich, and civilised future in one go. I myself believed in this. But it could not be done in one fell swoop…I am leaving. I have done everything I could…In saying farewell, I wish to say to each of you the following. be happy. You deserve happiness. You deserve happiness and peace.
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