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The Russian Oligarchs are more comparable to the Robber Barons in late 19th Century America. Despite the similarities, however, there are important differences. The most important similarity is that both resulted from institutional and legal vacuums of which energetic, enterprising, unscrupulous men ...
... societies usually begin with thugs and bandits. Once the thugs and bandits have consolidated their power and wealth, they are often transmuted into heroes and benefactors. I have in mind, not only the knights in shining armor. Consider the American Robber Barons who became America's great philanthropists (Josephson, 1962). In Russia, the former Komsomol apparatchik, Mikhail Khodorkovsky amassed his fortune by dubious means. He then turned to transforming his oil company into a paragon of ...
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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