Ed wrote: > Chris, I didn't say the oligarghs did what they did to save Russia. All > they did was lend the state (Yeltsin) money in return for shares as > collateral. That's all I said. It was a stupid deal made in desperation.
Russia needed cash (to avoid bankruptcy) and the oligarchs gave the cash, so they "saved" Russia -- that's the story. But how did these Russians get so extremely rich in the first place? Certainly not from communism, eh? (Or do you want to admit that they're simply the mafia, all along?) You're confusing cause and effect, and you're mixing up the timeline. The Russian oligarchs only became so rich AFTER the fall of communism -- not the other way around. But the question was: What was the motive of Soros in his important role in the fall of communism, which enabled this re-distribution of wealth from the Russian people to a few billionaires? (And things like the "orange revolution" in Ukraine, or the Yugoslaw wars in order to grab resources there, and even now the privatization wave in Western Europe.) Do you see the picture? It's always profiteers manufacturing the rip-off but then making it look like an accident (it was the invisible hand) or even a philanthropic act. But let's hear the next funny excuse from neo-con PR... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
