The restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union, and the collapse of communism in the USSR, had a far more horrific cost than most in the West know, or can even conceive.
It's interesting that Russia defeated the Nazis then almost immediately after the war ended, Russia went from ally to enemy ๐ง I really think the US helped Hitler rise to power and then instigated WWII. Ignored the war until being bombed by Japan. Which the US was warned about and did nothing to prevent๐ค Europe was bombed to rubble and the US became essential to their recovery. Becoming a global power because of that. I also think the fascists won because look at the state of the world today๐ข
It now seems obvious that a huge social shock like a sudden change to capitalism would result in massive deaths. Now that you illustrate it. But truly, I had no idea until you turned on the lights. I weep for the Russian people as I also weep for all people treated like disposables.
Wow! Amazing, though with a second'a reflection, I suppose I am not surprised. Btw, I never found a specific connection, but the CIA once named a secret program of theirs "Project Harvard". It concerned aid to defectors.
What do you make (if anything) of Jeffrey Sachs' recent efforts to rehabilitate himself by claiming he was actually opposed to shock therapy all along, but no one in the '90s would listen to his warnings? While I agree with Professor Sachs on some issues, I honestly find him a bit oily and feel he's trying to pull an Albert Speer act in regard to his responsibility for what happened in post-Soviet Russia. Am I too cynical?
It's an excellent question. I address it obliquely in the article, where I suggest it's unlikely someone working at his level โ an adviser to Yeltsin, no less โ didn't know what was going on. I think he genuinely now understands how close we are to a nuclear war from US aggression, but I don't think he's come clean on all he knows from his Russian misadventure.
When the average man's life span drops from 67 to 60 you know something is wrong
I was alive then and I never understood why or how the Soviet Union falling apart would make the world safer or better.
The united states bought Alaska from Russian Royalty with no Involvement of Indigenous Population.......and you don't see the US pulling out all the English Speaking people .....
Frankly Gorbachev always seemed more honest than Yeltsin.
It's interesting that Russia defeated the Nazis then almost immediately after the war ended, Russia went from ally to enemy ๐ง I really think the US helped Hitler rise to power and then instigated WWII. Ignored the war until being bombed by Japan. Which the US was warned about and did nothing to prevent๐ค Europe was bombed to rubble and the US became essential to their recovery. Becoming a global power because of that. I also think the fascists won because look at the state of the world today๐ข
It now seems obvious that a huge social shock like a sudden change to capitalism would result in massive deaths. Now that you illustrate it. But truly, I had no idea until you turned on the lights. I weep for the Russian people as I also weep for all people treated like disposables.
Harvard's endowment tripled during this time.
Wow! Amazing, though with a second'a reflection, I suppose I am not surprised. Btw, I never found a specific connection, but the CIA once named a secret program of theirs "Project Harvard". It concerned aid to defectors.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/HARVARD%20PROJECT%20RENEWALS%20%20%20VOL.%202_0012.pdf
Some schools of economics are deadly.
What do you make (if anything) of Jeffrey Sachs' recent efforts to rehabilitate himself by claiming he was actually opposed to shock therapy all along, but no one in the '90s would listen to his warnings? While I agree with Professor Sachs on some issues, I honestly find him a bit oily and feel he's trying to pull an Albert Speer act in regard to his responsibility for what happened in post-Soviet Russia. Am I too cynical?
It's an excellent question. I address it obliquely in the article, where I suggest it's unlikely someone working at his level โ an adviser to Yeltsin, no less โ didn't know what was going on. I think he genuinely now understands how close we are to a nuclear war from US aggression, but I don't think he's come clean on all he knows from his Russian misadventure.
When the average man's life span drops from 67 to 60 you know something is wrong
I was alive then and I never understood why or how the Soviet Union falling apart would make the world safer or better.
The united states bought Alaska from Russian Royalty with no Involvement of Indigenous Population.......and you don't see the US pulling out all the English Speaking people .....
Frankly Gorbachev always seemed more honest than Yeltsin.