"And that's why #putin et al must fall!"
The #Gauleiters of the occupied territories cannot cover all expenses through taxes
The occupied territories of #Ukraine are critically dependent on #Moscow's injections. Based on the results of nine months of 2023, 82.5% of their income comes from the federal budget , as stated in the report of the #Gaidar Institute.
For the so-called “new regions”, business income tax brought only 2.9% of revenues to local budgets, and personal income tax - 7.7%.
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"...the lives of 👉3 million #Russians 👈 who would otherwise be alive today."(2)
After that, #Boris #Yeltsin's economic #ShockTherapy, masterminded by economists Yegor #Gaidar and Anatoly #Chubais, it is my hypothesis that it not only "...created #Russian #oligarchs and paved the path for #Putin."(3)
It also made #kleptocracy the cornerstone of the post-#Soviet political system in #Russia.
It must have also provided a...
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...know however, that their story is crucial to understanding the rise of #Putin."
The need to radically reform the economy was unavoidable. The reasons for this, however, were the #OctoberRevolution and the subsequent decades of an economic system that cannot work, #communism.
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"#Yeltsin turned to the #Russian economists Yegor #Gaidar and Anatoly #Chubais, who, with the aid of Western..."