Which is precisely why it bugs me so much we're silent about shock capitalism. A good way to avoid the lesson.
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Aren't the current occupants of the Kremlin (and all Russian elites) by definition the ones who benefited the most from that period?
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They benefitted from the aftermath, absolutely. I just think we should remember that our "solutions" helped create this problem.
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Russian mobsterism is sometimes presented as a quintessentially Russian (or EEur) problem. It's not. It's a hypercapitalism problem.
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... They were poised to exploit the awful transition.
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Sure. My point is the awful transition was driven in significant part by Americans who were sure they knew better.
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yes. One size fits all conversion from communism. Ugh.
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