Wolfgang Geist
Sep 9, 2018 · 1 min read

Russia is not part of the failed states mentioned in the beginning. As much as Westeners and especially Americans and Britains fall for the Anti russian propaganda, it is still propaganda. Russia was a failed state when Yeltsin and Clinton changed the rules that allowed the corrupt former Soviet bureaucrats to take over the former state assets, creating the oligarchs, many of which fled to the west and Israel, after Putin came to power. Putin then made a deal with the Oligarchs that didn´t leave the country and didn´t take their stolen money abroad. Since Putin is in power, living standards have risen dramatically in Russia.

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