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A peer comment reminded me of the name 'shock therapy', the think tank was called 'Harvard institute for international development'. https://www.npr.org/sectio
by cjbgkagh 4y ago
A peer comment reminded me of the name 'shock therapy', the think tank was called 'Harvard institute for international development'.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how-shock-therapy-created-russian-oligarchs-and-paved-the-path-for-putin https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how...
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russia/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ...
My original comment has been flagged. I'd like to know why. If I'm wrong I'd like to be corrected.
- pessimizer 4y agoIt was flagged for not sufficiently praising the awful behavior of the US during and after the fall of the USSR.
- saalweachter 4y agoIf I had to guess, it's because George Soros is often used as synecdoche for "the vast Jewish conspiracy" by anti-Semites, so your comment sounds an awful lot like "the Jews are responsible for ruining Russia". Which, uh, sounds a lot like anti-Semitic rhetoric not uncommon in, among other places, Russia.