I find this particularly naive. There are lots of reasons why Russia becomes this since the collapse of USSR. If, imagine, somehow the privatization worked ou

I find this particularly naive. There are lots of reasons why Russia becomes this since the collapse of USSR. If, imagine, somehow the privatization worked out wonderfully, every Russian is as happy as as their counterparts in US, UK etc. (In fact, that would not be sufficient...) Do you still think Russia would do this? If you think they still would do this, then it must be the free will of the country? Now given what's happening, should this be treated as a natural reaction to the fact that learning from a foreign system is not working, and the nation are trying something else? Remember, when you claim someone else is inventing certain ideology, that means there is a concept of ideology. The moment this concept is created, it naturally applies to the accuser, I.e., someone else inventing a different ideology than the accuser. Then, it's obvious that the foreign ideology was regarded by the ruling group as not suitable.