- Capitalism and Alternatives -it's business as usualIn Reply to: The coming Russia posted by borg on November 03, 1999 at 16:46:09:
:So Russia has been left looted and dispirited, with an aging physical plant, some heavy industry, a little investment, and a trusty stock of raw materials. Perestroika failed to build a Russian Silicon Valley. Reformists failed to modernize and Westernize the economy. Oligarchs have been caught stealing everything that was not nailed down. |