Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Bill Browder - Putin’s Kleptocratic System Brought to the Edge of Collapse by Putin's Disastrous War" video.

  1. That period when Buill was doing bvusiness in the Yeltsin years really was when Russia had the true Oligarchy, when they all banded to together to help Yeltsin beat Communist Party leader Zyuganov in 1996. I heard some commentator say only the other day, froget who now, maybe one of the retired Generals on TImes Radio or a Silicom Curttain preserntstion, that in defeating the communists in 1996, by hook or crook, we may have gotten something way worse. I tend to agree with that assesment. Another interesting thing about the Yeltson era, Iforget where I read this , possibly a boiography of Leonid Kravchuk (first President of a free Ukraine) that back then the Russian nationalists had plans to seize Crimea but Yeltsin put a stop to it, not because he cared about Ukraine so much, nut more because it would set a precident for the Chechens to leave Russia, "Hey if Crimea can leave Ukraine we can leave RUssia!" type of hypocrisy he wanted to avoid. Intertesting stuff!
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