Originally Posted by Expat
@Rick
But why so many Russian Socionists prefer LIE for Yeltsin, or LII or ILI for Putin? In the case of non-Russian and non-contemporary figures, like Kennedy, erroneous (to me) typings are explained by lack of knowledge of the figures themselves, and their typings of Russian tsars all seem very accurate to me (plus of Lenin, Stalin, etc).
But in the case of a Russian contemporary figure, like Boris Yeltsin, surely a disagreement on his type has more to do with the view of the type itself, so I have to conclude that such Socionists, like Lytov, see the LIE type as being possibly like someone like Yeltsin.
Of course, perhaps from the point of view of an ILE, some LIEs may appear like Yeltsin, which might make some sense.