> most of the really juicy assets (like almost of all our banking sector, our oil resources etc) got sold to Western companies You're painting an incomplete pi

> most of the really juicy assets (like almost of all our banking sector, our oil resources etc) got sold to Western companies You're painting an incomplete picture. The assets got sold only after being looted by former regime cronies who enriched themselves in the process. It's entirely our own fault for failing to prevent this 32 years after the USSR collapse. Russians mistakenly fault Gorbachev for the USSR collapse. He only saw the writing on the wall and made a soft landing. The USSR was going to collapse anyway.