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Related: About this forumBill 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.
sagesnow
(2,823 posts)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)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.
Nitram
(22,663 posts)ancianita
(35,812 posts)Nitram
(22,663 posts)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.