Peter Hitchens
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Sep
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And they're saying, well, not until you've denationalized the sugar industry or some such.
And they kept making conditions they never did.
And one of the reasons for the piratical rape of what was left of the Soviet economy was the unwillingness of the West to enter into a proper serious reform program.
I think you won't find that in Poland.
I think a lot of effort was made.
And it's been a fantastic success, I might say, to turn Poland into a modern, well-off, civilized, law-governed country, which I think the world should be really pleased about.
But I do often wonder why the same thing wasn't done in Russia.
Could have been, I think.
Fantastic resources, incredibly well educated people.
Of course.
But thrown away and the place turned into a declining slum and a dictatorship.
Well, you mentioned it.
My point is something else.
Material things, to some extent, recover.
They're not, by any means, for everybody, I don't think.
I think there are still people living very badly in Russia.
I accept that.
Yeah, of course.
You can't be certain about the future.
No, you can't be certain.
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