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Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union the Russian Federation has tried to improve the living standards of ordinary citizens and consumers by reducing costly defense expenditures and promote the manufacture of household consumer goods. However Russia has been forced to maintain its status as a nuclear [[superpower]] through a series of agreements with the United States, beginning in the period of ''[[Detente]]'' of the 1970s, to never allow [[China]] to catch-up in the sphere of [[nuclear weapon]]s development and manufacture. To live up to these commitments requires a constant process of modernization and adaptation to [[technology|technological]] improvements, which the Russian people can scarcely afford, but were forced into in the modern [[tri-polar]] world which has maintained the peace and avoided the use of nuclear weapons since 1945.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union the Russian Federation has tried to improve the living standards of ordinary citizens and consumers by reducing costly defense expenditures and promote the manufacture of household consumer goods. However Russia has been forced to maintain its status as a nuclear [[superpower]] through a series of agreements with the United States, beginning in the period of ''[[Detente]]'' of the 1970s, to never allow [[China]] to catch-up in the sphere of [[nuclear weapon]]s development and manufacture. To live up to these commitments requires a constant process of modernization and adaptation to [[technology|technological]] improvements, which the Russian people can scarcely afford, but were forced into in the modern [[tri-polar]] world which has maintained the peace and avoided the use of nuclear weapons since 1945.
===Post 1991 transition===
In a review of ''New York Times'' reporter Anne Williamson's book, ''Contagion: The Betrayal of Liberty -- Russia and the United States in the 1990s'', Paul Likoudis writes: "According to the [[socialist]] theoreticians at [[Harvard]], Russia needed to be brought into the [[New World Order]] in a hurry; and what better way to do it than [Jeffrey] Sachs' "shock therapy" -- a plan that empowered the degenerate, third-generation descendants of the original [[Bolshevik]]s by assigning them the deeds of Russia's mightiest state-owned industries -- including the giant gas, oil, electrical, and telecommunications industries, the world's largest paper, iron, and steel factories, the world's richest gold, silver, diamond, and platinum mines, automobile and airplane factories, etc. -- who, in turn, sold some of their shares of the properties to Westerners for a song, and pocketed the cash, while retaining control of the companies.
These third-generation Bolsheviks -- led by former [[Pravda]] hack Yegor Gaidar, grandson of a Bolshevik who achieved prominence as the [[Young mass murders|teenage mass murderer]] of [[White Army]] officers, now heads the Moscow-based Institute for Economies in Transition -- became instant millionaires (or billionaires) and left the Russian workers virtual slaves of them and their new foreign investors."<ref>[https://www.blacklistednews.com/HOW_CLINTON_AND_COMPANY_AND_THE_BANKERS_PLUNDERED_RUSSIA_IN_THE_%2790S/48111/0/38/38/Y/M.html HOW CLINTON AND COMPANY AND THE BANKERS PLUNDERED RUSSIA IN THE '90s], Paul Likoudis, January 2, 2016 </ref>
==See also==
==See also==