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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's only because Russia has already privatized and sold off all of its national assets to oligarchs after the fall of the USSR.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

that doesn't make sense in the context of the post you replied to

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The reason the US has a special hate-on for Putin is precisely because he kicked the Western shock therapists out of the country. He stanched the tide of privatization.