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You are grossly overstating the influence of the "us economic advice", which was zero. The mafioso oligarchs needed and used none of it.
by xixi77 11y ago
You are grossly overstating the influence of the "us economic advice", which was zero. The mafioso oligarchs needed and used none of it.
- jahewson 11y agoYou might want to read up on this. It was US economic advice which led to the rapid sell-off of public assets which resulted in the creation of the oligarchs in the first place.
- xixi77 11y agoSeriously, I do not need to read up on this, I was there. But one does not really need to have first-hand experience to see the deliberate deception in klein's "shock doctrine" and the like: for example, different countries in the region had markedly different timings, different implementation of reforms, different rhetoric, and different resources; but the outcomes pretty much fall into two groups: places where people demanded and expected accountability on part of government (ie. baltic states, and a few former warsaw pact countries) did relatively fine, and others devolved into oligarchies (ie. the rest of the former soviet union).