No. Obviously, Yeltsin followed Gorbachev- the West pretended Yeltsin was the hero who stopped the Stalinist coup attempt, by doing his meaningless pose on that tank, but Gorbachev was the one who actually stopped it by refusing to hand over power to the plotters, who were holding him prisoner and threatening to kill his entire family- but the West also didn't do anything but humiliate Yeltsin- even though he, like Gorbachev, was trying to turn Russia into a peaceable, prosperous democracy. It was the Western insistence of not rewarding either Gorbachev nor Yeltsin with normalized relations and prosperity that gave Putin his chance to rule as a tyrant. The lesson is clear- never try to resolve conflicts by humiliating the other party in the conflict. It brought nothing but tragedy to do that to Germany after the 1918 Armistice, and nothing but tragedy to do that after to the USSR and then post-Soviet Russia in the late 1980s and 1990s.