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  1. @StefLaw

    (3/n)

    "...the lives of 👉3 million #Russians 👈 who would otherwise be alive today."(2)

    After that, #Boris #Yeltsin's economic #ShockTherapy, masterminded by economists Yegor #Gaidar and Anatoly #Chubais, it is my hypothesis that it not only "...created #Russian #oligarchs and paved the path for #Putin."(3)

    It also made #kleptocracy the cornerstone of the post-#Soviet political system in #Russia.

    It must have also provided a...

    (3)
    npr.org/sections/money/2022/03

  2. @StefLaw

    (3/n)

    "...the lives of 👉3 million #Russians 👈 who would otherwise be alive today."(2)

    After that, #Boris #Yeltsin's economic #ShockTherapy, masterminded by economists Yegor #Gaidar and Anatoly #Chubais, it is my hypothesis that it not only "...created #Russian #oligarchs and paved the path for #Putin."(3)

    It also made #kleptocracy the cornerstone of the post-#Soviet political system in #Russia.

    It must have also provided a...

    (3)
    npr.org/sections/money/2022/03

  3. @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    (11/13)

    "...who would get what and for roughly how much...

    #Chubais was willing to hand over the property without competition, without openness, and, as it turned out, for a bargain price, but in a way that would keep the businessmen at #Yeltsin's side in the 1996 #reelection campaign...Fueled by the immense power of the #oligarchs, #Yeltsin conducted #Russia's first American-style presidential campaign...

    As #Yeltsin's..."

  4. @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    (11/13)

    "...who would get what and for roughly how much...

    #Chubais was willing to hand over the property without competition, without openness, and, as it turned out, for a bargain price, but in a way that would keep the businessmen at #Yeltsin's side in the 1996 #reelection campaign...Fueled by the immense power of the #oligarchs, #Yeltsin conducted #Russia's first American-style presidential campaign...

    As #Yeltsin's..."

  5. @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    (10/13)

    "..about to slide back into communism, #Chubais and the #Yeltsin administration turned to a shady scheme known as "Loans For Shares." ...
    When the government #defaulted on paying back the loans, as the schemers expected they would, the oligarchs would walk away with the keys to #Russia's most profitable corporations...

    The auctions were a complete *farce*. #Chubais and his team had predetermined with the #oligarchs..."

  6. @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    (10/13)

    "..about to slide back into communism, #Chubais and the #Yeltsin administration turned to a shady scheme known as "Loans For Shares." ...
    When the government #defaulted on paying back the loans, as the schemers expected they would, the oligarchs would walk away with the keys to #Russia's most profitable corporations...

    The auctions were a complete *farce*. #Chubais and his team had predetermined with the #oligarchs..."

  7. @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    (6/n)

    "...the first big shock to the #Russian economy when he lifted price controls in December 1991. As the Soviet economy collapsed, however, the policy ended up unleashing "hyperinflation..devestated ordinary #Russians."

    "Meanwhile, #Chubais was tasked with overseeing mass #privatization...the former #SovietUnion was holding the world's largest garage sale and vouchers l...given to #Russian citizens...were the tickets to..."

  8. @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    (6/n)

    "...the first big shock to the #Russian economy when he lifted price controls in December 1991. As the Soviet economy collapsed, however, the policy ended up unleashing "hyperinflation..devestated ordinary #Russians."

    "Meanwhile, #Chubais was tasked with overseeing mass #privatization...the former #SovietUnion was holding the world's largest garage sale and vouchers l...given to #Russian citizens...were the tickets to..."

  9. @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    (2/n)

    ...know however, that their story is crucial to understanding the rise of #Putin."

    The need to radically reform the economy was unavoidable. The reasons for this, however, were the #OctoberRevolution and the subsequent decades of an economic system that cannot work, #communism.

    Russian President
    "#Yeltsin turned to the #Russian economists Yegor #Gaidar and Anatoly #Chubais, who, with the aid of Western..."

  10. @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    (2/n)

    ...know however, that their story is crucial to understanding the rise of #Putin."

    The need to radically reform the economy was unavoidable. The reasons for this, however, were the #OctoberRevolution and the subsequent decades of an economic system that cannot work, #communism.

    Russian President
    "#Yeltsin turned to the #Russian economists Yegor #Gaidar and Anatoly #Chubais, who, with the aid of Western..."