90s Russia and other post-Soviet rebirth interests me and this is the juiciest and most intriguing thing. Can any Rus or eastern historian give me the background of the political world in general over there, what Yeltsin's policies were, the reluctance to the fall of the Soviet Union, who were the snipers speculated to be, what the fuck was this thing.
1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis
Caleb Young
Henry Morgan
Watch this:
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Then read "Casino Moscow" and "Godfather of Kremlin"
Gavin Harris
Bump because I am interested.
Brayden Price
Bumping for interest.
Alexander Ortiz
Another Bump. Video is good, it's a video from before the BBC was pozzed by ZoG, a documentary where they are almost named if you substitute Oligarch for Jew.
I wanted to believe they're not all like that and the common Jew has as much to do with them as we tend to have with our own governments / the monarchy but pol is always right.
How do you think he knew to go directly to Soros?
Andrew Diaz
forgot
Liam Roberts
What video unless you mean .
Camden Hall
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Jason Cruz
Bumping.
Jack Campbell
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Hudson Perry
I don't know specifics about his policies, but I do know some Russians living in the states and his name is considered a curse word by them
Brayden James
Thank you for this document.
As for the the privatization in the rest of the Soviet States, about 1 million people died because of the social vacuum created by the rapid privatization. I was surprised that they have acknowledged in the documentary that the Soviet people didn't know what the capitalism is and how to work in it. The voucher privatization was a disaster, because people from non-capitalistic country aren't the capitalistic merchants. It's like giving a farmer from Siberia a million dollars and sending him to a NY stock exchange. All the 'gold jewels' of Russia were sold for peanuts. It was a great disaster on all platforms - geopolitical, diplomatic, economic, scientific (brain drain) even military and intelligence (secret archives being plundered).
This study was criticized and the authors of the original paper could not for a long time voice their rebuttal. Once they did they pointed out that the critics' goal was only to hide the truth and not to re-evaluate the data.
The rapid mass privatisation which followed the break up of the Soviet Union fuelled an increase in death rates among men, research suggests.
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news.bbc.co.uk
Yugoslavia went through a very similar story:
Michael Parenti (speaker): youtube.com
The Weight of Chains (documentary) : youtube.com
It wrenches my heart when I see those consumerist-innocent people being pushed to transition into consumerist slaves that now have to shop in supermarkets instead of tending their own farms, where their sensitive minds are being overloaded by the subverting marketing and when the brakes on any restrains are being removed (social and intimate). Friendly people full of love for their own and others, turned into cold capitalistic addicts looking for their next fix.
The Soviet times and the Yugoslavia weren't as bad as people are told in the West. People had their land, they had food, they had holidays and they were happy, because they had a ground to stand on. Today people own nothing, there's no security for the future and in all those post-Soviet/former Yugoslavian countries people are being exploited by their Western overlords.
Adrian Carter
Just look at the cultural and moral institutions of the two former factions to see who was actually worse off during the cold war
It's not coincidence that the West ended up being far more dysfunctional and damaged than the former soviet states did
Cultural Marxism was far more damaging in the long run than the Soviet style marxism
Mason Wright
I agree.
Gavin Martinez
Half of these people died because they drank themselves to death and refused to make the transition, they didn't look for a job, they didn't start a business, they were just hoping the governemnt would sooner or later start sending checks, which never happened.
Get your head out of your ass you leftist moron. Soviet Russia was flooded with western products, food and medicine after the breakup of the soviet union, it's just that a certain segment of the population couldn't afford them, because they had no jobs, no marketable skills and no savings. There were millions of soldiers, who were waiting for their paychecks, instead of finding work. It was a paradigm shift and russians did not make the rapid changes that needed to be made.
Jaxon Williams
How delusional do you have to be to refer to people who had never seen a banana or papaya as "consumerist-innocent". They were desperately poor, not "consumerist-innocent".
Alexander Martin
Nice bait. Capitalism has nothing to do with the left. See China, Turkey, Israel.
Thank you merchant. Can I have some dividends from my vouchers?
Just because you don't have something in a store doesn't mean you have to be poor. It wouldn't be fair to call you poor if stores don't have something like a polar bear liver.
Capitalism doesn't mean you have the money to afford the advertised lifestyle, it only allows you to dream while windowshopping.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Also stop samefagging you faggot.
Parker Jones
That's right, the left is entirely obsessed with destroying capitalism, which is why you post your venomous leftist poison.
You argue like a child, so let me make it very clear to you: They were poor, because they didn't produce anything of value and so people were not able to afford much of anything.
The russian government produced virtually nothing that the world wanted and as result they had a trade imbalance and couldn't afford basic items like bananas and papayas that available in every capitalist country in the world.
The soviet union paid people to do fuck-all. The population had makeshift government jobs. Soldiers were basically polishing shoes all day long and so it's not a surprise that when the government finally collapsed under its own weight that these people with no skills drank themselves to death) because they had no jobs and no skills.
This adds to the deathtoll of communism. *Socialism took never root in the US, because we see the fruits of capitalism every day. Go the fuck back to leftypol.*
Christian Johnson
Parenti and Weight of Chains reach deep into revisionism and alternate history territory. Very Michael Moor-ish in their approach, best taken with a boat load of salt.
Evan Harris
Is that the same left that advocates for globalism, open borders and no trade restrictions?
You obviously cannot comprehend any system outside of capitalism. Even in the US today there are tons of subsidized jobs, people living from hand to mouth or living on the streets.
In Soviet era you got a place to live and work from the government. Today you get none of those. The capitalist governments are controlled by lobbyists that push for lower wages, slave conditions, longer hours, etc. They surely won't give a bit of their slice. Previously you at least had some kind of assurance, today you have only uncertainty. See the European financial crisis and people in Spain, Greece, Italy killing themselves because their savings were wiped out.
People can survive in their traditional ways, just like that did for thousands of years before the capitalism overtook their lives and made them into disposable "value-creating" machines.
You mean all those unemployed, homeless people unable to afford healthcare and education? Those few with most of the wealth in their pockets? The quantitative easing or the estate bubbles?
I am not the one advocating for the merchants.
Not really. The US interference in the foreign affairs and the staged coups are well documented historical facts.
Sebastian Bailey
Neither Communism nor Capitalism is good for us anyway.