Russia is not capitolist, no matter what economists may say. The most most most important thing in captiolism is ownership of private proproty. without that no one has colatteral on loans and there's economic stagnation. You may think a bunch of ex-commies on the street might not do well with that much money, and it may be very risky, but it works. Look at the Czek republic and south africa. These are both countries that gave their people their land and they've comparitivly taken off!Originally Posted by Shadow Nexus
Uh, OK, communist Russia is far from any utopia, specially during Stalin's rule, probably the most horrible man who ever existed...well, one of them. Yet in the last period of the regime, the last years of the 80s, where censhorip ended (Glasnost)...well, I believe it was better than now, or at least so says my father, who has travelled to Russia many times, both in the 80s and in the last years. His words more or less were: "Socialist Russia was certainly not a paradise, but at least you don't have beggars in the street like you do now".
