He was plastered an awful lot. I'm not surprised. I liked him tho.
Today I learned this alcoholic retard blew off two of his fingers with a grenade
Nah, he didn’t destroy anything, a much larger role was played by low oil and gas prices, and the restructuring of the economy from a planned to a capitalist one(which went pretty well). His great advantage was that he really wanted to build a liberal democracy on the Western model, and not just power tripping like Putin. The economy recovered and went up under him immediately after the default, Putin did not have to do anything at all, he came to everything ready, and this marked the beginning of the era of silogarchy. BTW he didn’t kill any of his opponents or journalists as Putin did.
With that I understand that the image is trying to say that all of those could be chalked down to oil prices but you only have to look at poutine to see that booming oil doesn't mean development. You do realize that if Yeltsin wasn't incompetent it would have been possible to have all of Russia relatively prosperous, from Petersburg to Chelyabinsk to Vladivostok. Instead you have a gilded Moscow and that's all. Even that was down to pretty much only Luzhkov -- he was corrupt but at least he developed the city
I mean that the economy really became capitalist and most of the large enterprises that now make up the economy were formed.
>lawlessness
The reason for this was the poverty, not something in Yeltsin's behavior. And do not tell me I lived at this time in the most criminal city in Russia(which is still remains so)
They were formed poorly. Had they actually been developed by a leader (which Yeltsin could have done!) Then you likely wouldn't have had the whirlwind and extreme poverty (which goes hand in hand with crime).
I think that you could try to make the broader case that Russians, as a society, are lazy and unambitious and that allowed for the situation to unfold as it has, but when the leader was a drunk who allowed 10 jewish bankers to plunder the industry, I cannot buy that argument.
True, yeltsin was incompetent alcoholic. And a lot of infrastructure was destroyed or stollen by current oligarchs in charge. Common folk became poor and a lot of people died of hunger and Russia was largely depopulated and crime was on the rise. It was wild capitalism which destroyed and managed many human lives. The leftovers of those times you can find on brighton beach in new york.
I believe that business should grow by itself, and not be cultivated by the central government. China is an example. Giants like Huawei were once small artisanal workshops that sought their own niche in the market. My parents also opened a similar workshop, and on its example I could observe the formation of business in Russia. If in the 90s it was possible to take on anything and get competitive products, then starting from 00 the situation began to change, and production competing with imported goods ceased to be something realistic. The company switched to the production of non-portable items, and since then, new productions have ceased to arise. And this is against the backdrop of incredibly high oil prices, the profits from which went to the record-breaking rapid emergence of new billionaires belonging to Putin's circle.
This exact mindset is why Russia is so fascinating to me
I think I understand where you're coming from, but the decline that you've experienced in Russia is also the fault of Yeltsin even if much of it happened during (and especially after) peak oil in the first decade of this century. If there were more incentives and stable institutions (which as Moldova has mentioned is something that has taken place in China) then the environment for adaptation could have allowed Russians to flourish.
Which city are you from btw?
Putin basically recovered the mess yeltsin and his mob has done in the nineties. It is after 2010 when Russia went on the road of decline. Yeltisn basically pawed the road to Putins eternal rule.
It is just that nobody cares about welfare of common Russian and the life is cheap which saddens me. It was a great superpower and became a laughing stock with a clown as a president.
The government basically threw millions of people on the street. When there was a privatisation of deutche telekom in Germany, they rented a stadium where people were explained how stock works.
In Russia people were given vouchers without any idea what it is all about and those vouchers they sold for pennies to current oligarchs who made their fortune on that. It was grand robbery and a time of chaos.
People were introduced to something they did not know any idea about and how it works. They basically were thrown in to the water without knowledge how to swim.
Ackshully, if I recall correctly, I believe I read something that said most Russians were aware of how the vouchers worked, what dividends were, etc. but that the social situation was such that most Russians couldn't really afford to worry about the future so much.
Though this seems a bit naive perhaps. It was probably the latter coupled with many misunderstanding given that they were traded for vodka
>Tfw to retarded too speak Russian
Financial literacy among Russians was low and I don't think it is any better now. Some local comedians even made jokes about it that they were introduced such system that even experts have no idea how it works.
Unfortunately no English subs.
Here is my rough translation from of fragment from 2:25
>Not a problem that without explanation. Go to the market at 8 in the morning. Not a problem that everybody doesn't understand anything. That's okay. Go to the market and trade everything. Common man thinks: what is that? what is market? where to go? what to trade? where to buy? where to stand? what is allowed and what is not? Stocks, investments, nobody understands anything!
>So that professionals who don't understand this better than others can not explain and keep quiet.
I also think USSR was better. At least Moldova was better off in USSR. If I lived in USSR I would not have to move to Vienna, I would have jerb, apartment and maybe already a gf. I would have a simpler life without worries. But capitalism and poverty spoiled me and made me greedy and having unquenchable thirsts for more. My life is a constant struggle.
Nah, I though you were talking about real feeling of opportunity by real people living there at the time, but you're talking about something unreal and only possible in someone's mind, 'cause actual real life went in other direction.
Anyway, I was living at those days and all I remember about these obligations was that people were disappointed and didn't really want them. Can't recall anybody who felt opportunity at least before '95-97.