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Moscow is one of the most expensive cities in the world. Many people have had to leave their home city because they couldn't pay their rent and bills anymore. Same development as in Bangalore and many other - at first glance - booming cities. Those who can afford to live in Moscow don't have much to complain about as they obviously have enough money.
There were several problems with market reforms that came after the Soviet collapse related to how these reforms were implemented. Market reforms have gone smoother in Estonia and Poland because of the way they implemented their reforms.
Privatisation in Estonia (http://www.einst.ee/historic/economy/privatisation.htm - broken link)
"The strengthening of democratic institutions in Russia
on the basis of public accord, tolerance to followers of
other religions and mutual respect has contributed
to the rapid development of the Jewish communities."
Vladimir Putin
Anyone here understand Putinese ?
That's what I call the symbolism contained in public comments by Vladimir Putin.
And, as we all know, symbols can sometimes be interpreted more than one way.
"Capitalism" in Russia is styled more like China's, aka authoritarian state-capitalism, rather than the "Washington Consensus" style of free-market capitalism advocated by US economic advisers back in the day. A style that is increasingly discredited and in retreat world-wide...
A lot of people WERE better off under Communism. A lot of people were not better off. I equate the dawn of Capitalism in Eastern Europe with opening pandora's box. With the good came the bad.
A lot of people WERE better off under Communism. A lot of people were not better off. I equate the dawn of Capitalism in Eastern Europe with opening pandora's box. With the good came the bad.
Wow, just wow. You are just itching to live under an iron fist aren't you? Is that why you like Obama so much?
A lot of people WERE better off under Communism. A lot of people were not better off. I equate the dawn of Capitalism in Eastern Europe with opening pandora's box. With the good came the bad.
Alot of the older people there do have a nostalgia for economic security they had back then compared dog-eat-dog style that today's capitalism promotes...
Wow, just wow. You are just itching to live under an iron fist aren't you? Is that why you like Obama so much?
Given the choice between the United States and the USSR, I'd obviously choose life in the United States. BUT some people WERE better off under Communism. Anybody in Russia who is currently unemployed, for example, would've been better off under Communism, since Communist countries had full employment. Amateur athletes and scholars are another group that benefited from Communism.
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