Jamison Firestone
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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Everybody kind of forgot about Gorbachev and the Soviet Union voted itself out of existence within months.
But what happened at that point was
was the Russians in control were so afraid that things could go back to communism that they decided literally to privatize and give away everything in the country.
And so there was this rapid system of let's sell everything in the country to the people.
But most of the people didn't understand how privatization worked.
They lived in this cocoon all their life.
They didn't understand capitalism.
And so what ended up happening was only a very few
bought the resources of Russia and everything and everybody else was was completely broke.
There was massive inflation and you had people out on the street putting blankets down with their with their prized possessions and selling them on the streets.
And most of the country, I mean, something like 99 percent of the country was bankrupt.
And that created this huge social unrest.
And so in 1993, two years after the coup, there was a standoff between the Congress
and the president and the Congress rightfully, I mean, not rightfully, but lawfully impeached the president who refused to leave office and the president illegally dissolved Congress who also refused to leave office.
And then we have this thing that nobody could conceive of.
You may find it hard to believe as an American that something like this could happen, but the president of the country attacked his own Congress and he rolled tanks up to the Congress and shelled the Congress
And many people like myself and the government of the United States and pretty much every government of every democracy on earth stood by Yeltsin saying that this was what was necessary to save the reforms.
But we all forgot about democracy at the time.
And that set Russia on the path to where it is today.
So first of all, yeah, in the 1990s,
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