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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 [[slave]]s of them and their new foreign investors."<br>[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><ref>[[Martin Armstrong]]: [https://youtu.be/Srzti_XA140?t=812  The Road to World War III — Who's Really Pulling the Strings?], Christian E. White, Jul 19, 2025 . [[YouTube]]</ref> It denotes a period of profound [[political]], [[economic]], and [[social]] transformation, characterized by widespread instability. According to Roy Medvedev, [[Boris Yeltsin]] attempted to reintroduce [[capitalism]], which led to mass [[unemployment]], [[hyperinflation]], and [[dictatorship]].

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 [[slave]]s of them and their new foreign investors."<br>[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><ref>[[Martin Armstrong]]: [https://youtu.be/Srzti_XA140?t=812  The Road to World War III — Who's Really Pulling the Strings?], Christian E. White, Jul 19, 2025 . [[YouTube]]</ref> It denotes a period of profound [[political]], [[economic]], and [[social]] transformation, characterized by widespread instability. According to Roy Medvedev, [[Boris Yeltsin]] attempted to reintroduce [[capitalism]], which led to mass [[unemployment]], [[hyperinflation]], and [[dictatorship]].

Average [[life expectancy]] for Russians, especially [[men]], dropped significantly during Russia's conversion to [[capitalism]] and [[privatization]], a program known as "shock therapy".  The average Russian's [[living standard]] accordingly did not rise as his life expectancy fell, and he also had to deal with [[unemployment]], unknown in Soviet times.<ref>The [[Soviet Union]] boasted of no [[unemployment]] under [[communism]] by outlawing unemployment with "[[social parasite]]" [[law]]s. Nevertheless former [[Warsaw Pact|Eastern bloc]] member and now [[capitalist]] [[democratic]] [[Poland]], with the largest standing military in [[Europe]] as [[NATO]] marches eastward to the Russian border, maintains its social parasite laws.</ref> Indeed, Russian [[infrastructure]] across the board was in a state of collapse for several years after Yeltsin took power, complicating the privatization of the Russian [[economy]] and discouraging much-needed [[investment]].  

Average [[life expectancy]] for Russians, especially [[men]], dropped significantly during Russia's conversion to [[capitalism]] and [[privatization]], a program known as "shock therapy".  The average Russian's [[living standard]] accordingly did not rise as his life expectancy fell, and he also had to deal with [[unemployment]], unknown in Soviet times.<ref>The [[Soviet Union]] boasted of no [[unemployment]] under [[communism]] by outlawing unemployment with "[[social parasite]]" [[law]]s. Nevertheless former [[Warsaw Pact|Eastern bloc]] member and now [[capitalist]] [[democratic]] [[Poland]], with the largest standing military in [[Europe]] as [[NATO]] marches eastward to the Russian border, maintains its social parasite laws. The threat of prosecution can force the unemployed to enlist in the [[military]].</ref> Indeed, Russian [[infrastructure]] across the board was in a state of collapse for several years after Yeltsin took power, complicating the privatization of the Russian [[economy]] and discouraging much-needed [[investment]].  

==Boris Berezovsky==

==Boris Berezovsky==