*'''December 25, 1991.''' Soviet Union collapses. [[Wall Street]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] [[carpetbagger]]sm among them [[Bill Browder]], move in during ensuing decade to asset-strip the country of formerly state-owned properties, enrich themselves, help give rise to [[oligarch]]s, and impoverish the Russian, Ukrainian and other former Soviet peoples. | *'''December 25, 1991.''' Soviet Union collapses. [[Wall Street]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] [[carpetbagger]]sm among them [[Bill Browder]], move in during ensuing decade to asset-strip the country of formerly state-owned properties, enrich themselves, help give rise to [[oligarch]]s, and impoverish the Russian, Ukrainian and other former Soviet peoples. |