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Topic History of: Gorbachev
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JK2006 |
Absolutely excellent interview by Stephen Sackur HARDTalk on BBC News - catch it today Thursday at 9.30 this morning.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001c1sj |
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Honey |
Taskmaster wrote:
In the 90's, the sale of almost 80% of Russia's largest corporations brought unrivalled opportunities for corruption by officials and their cronies.
The privatisation program promoted and executed by Yeltsin created thousands of millionaires and billionaires, by unfairly relocating the nation's assets.
Of course. You can call the system or parties anything you want, but corrupt pigs will always end up in charge. |
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Taskmaster |
In the 90's, the sale of almost 80% of Russia's largest corporations brought unrivalled opportunities for corruption by officials and their cronies.
The privatisation program promoted and executed by Yeltsin created thousands of millionaires and billionaires, by unfairly relocating the nation's assets. |
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Wyot |
It was towering what he did and ensured decades of relative stability and peace following the end of the cold war.
Just a tragedy that Russia - for whatever reasons, I am no expert- wasn't ready or would not embrace and make work democratic capitalism with a social conscience.
Instead, a few bastards directed the wealth to themselves, and a barbarian occupies the Kremlin. |
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JK2006 |
In a more general way he was clearly one of the great human beings - whether you consider it good or bad, like Thatcher and Reagan and Hitler and Churchill and Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, he was a massive figure. |
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