> painstakingly vetted for their impeccable ideological purity You watch too many Hollywood spy movies :) > turned hyper-capitalist overnight What happened i

> painstakingly vetted for their impeccable ideological purity You watch too many Hollywood spy movies :) > turned hyper-capitalist overnight What happened in the 90s had little to do with capitalism, though some may argue it did :) It was mass theft of state property (with a fair amount of murder) out in the open among chaos and disarray. First, there was the gang of "liberals", who heroically put an end to the Soviets and stole what they could on the ruins of the collapsed Empire. Then in 00s with Putin came the KGB gang, who took away the loot from the "liberals" and put private sector under control. They recently ousted the opposing military gang in a big embezzlement scandal. They're the ruling elite at the moment.