• culprit@lemmy.ml
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin

    The dissolution of the USSR was led by liberals gaining power.

    He later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika

    The purported goal of perestroika was not to end the planned economy, but rather to make socialism work more efficiently to better meet the needs of Soviet citizens by adopting elements of liberal economics.

    Literally liberals doing a transition to liberalism under the guidance of the Washington Consensus, and you think the terrible results are the fault of socialism? Read some history please.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus

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      You are blabbering about the ‘terrible results’ no shit, the government was shattered into choas. No economic ideology going to prevents choatic economics. Its not what i am arguing.

      Im litterally saying all the self claimed communists that were in position took advantage of the choas and grasped their own empire. You point to one man. I point to them all.

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        If you read any of the links to the people responsible for the implementation, you will see they were all liberal reformers, not communists. But you don’t care, you just want to blame someone else for the inherent failures of liberalism.

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            LMAO, they were created via the liberalization of the USSR economy. You are making my point for me.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarchs

            The Russian oligarchs first emerged as entrepreneurs under Mikhail Gorbachev (General Secretary, 1985–1991), exploiting various loopholes during the economic liberalisation of his perestroika programme. Boris Berezovsky, a mathematician and former researcher, became the first widely recognised Russian business oligarch.

            The oligarchs became increasingly influential in Russian politics during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999), a period often referred to as the wild nineties; they helped finance his re-election in 1996. Well-connected oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Potanin acquired key assets at a fraction of their value at the loans for shares scheme auctions conducted in the run-up to the election. Defenders of the oligarchs who later fell out of favour have argued that the companies they acquired were not highly valued at the time because they continued to operate on Soviet principles, with non-existent stock control, huge payrolls, no financial reporting and scant regard for profit.

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                The Russian oligarchs first emerged as entrepreneurs under Mikhail Gorbachev (General Secretary, 1985–1991), exploiting various loopholes during the economic liberalisation of his perestroika programme.