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'''George Soros''' is a Hungarian-American billionaire investor and philanthropist,<ref>{{Cite news| url= http://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-billionaire-investor-profile-2017-1|title=The incredible life of billionaire investing legend George Soros| newspaper= Business Insider|access-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-bearish-george-soros-is-trading-again-1465429163|title=A Bearish George Soros Is Trading Again |last=Zuckerman| first= Gregory| date= June 9, 2016|newspaper= [[The Wall Street Journal]]|issn=0099-9660|access-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref> who as of May 2020 has a net worth of $8.3 billion,<ref name="daily">{{cite web| url= https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires| title= Bloomberg Billionaires| website= Bloomberg.com| access-date= February 6, 2015}} Note that this site is updated daily.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=George Soros|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/george-soros/|access-date=2020-07-09|website=Forbes}}</ref> having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/george-soros|title=George Soros|website=Open Society Foundations|access-date=December 13, 2018}}</ref> He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and his most important influence is the antisocialist [[Karl Popper]]. At one point he appointed his own tax lawyer to the Human Rights Watch Board, exposing himself to ridicule and charges of cronyism.<ref name="Treanor">{{safesubst:cite web|last=Treanor|first=Paul|title=Who is behind Human Rights Watch?|url=http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html|year=2004}}</ref>
Soros has funded the color revolutions<ref>Zourabichvili, Salomé (April 2008). "Article". Herodote. French Institute for Geopolitics.</ref> as well as pushing for the dissolution of the [[Soviet Union]], working with the [[CIA]] to accomplish such.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190424090512/https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/12/09/soros-and-his-cia-friends-targeted-ussr-russia-1987/ Soros and His CIA Friends Targeted USSR/Russia in 1987]</ref> He does not claim to be a [[Marxist]] or [[socialist]] and doesn’t act like one either, but is rather an opportunistic [[neoliberal]].
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