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ancianita

(35,812 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 09:54 AM Feb 2020

Bill Browder,The First Western Businessman in Russia, Explains His Business Entanglement With Russia

Interesting points are his family's communist background, his work at Solomon Brothers, how his "stealing analysis" of Gazprom, his biggest investment, worked out, and how corrupt mafia economics work in a nation of men, not of laws.

It's long but highly informative.

It's uncanny how Trump's approach to crippling this government sets the scene for Russia's same mafia economics in the U.S.

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sagesnow

(2,823 posts)
1. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 10:16 AM
Feb 2020

Browder also has this book out about his venture into the Russian stock market. It's eye opening and chilling.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609522-red-notice

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
2. Yes. Thank you. It's been on my bookshelf ever since I read Garry Kasparov's Winter Is Coming.
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 10:43 AM
Feb 2020

Knowing Putin is to know the deep historical oppression Russians have suffered even beyond Stalin.

It's no wonder Russians account for some of the West's highest number of undocumented immigrants. They fly to the West and never return. Who'd blame them. What helps them stay is their being white.

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
4. Can you contradict him and say who was? Obviously, in our lifetime, post-Stalin, not since forever.
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 04:11 PM
Feb 2020

Nitram

(22,663 posts)
5. I believe Armand Hammer takes that honor, if that's what we want to call it.
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 11:54 PM
Feb 2020

I'm not sure what your lifetime has to do with it. The headline said nothing about post-Stalin, and I''m not sure what the significance of that would be. Please explain.

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