Yep. What a messed up society. Russia might never recover from Communism. When the commies fell the Russian mobs were there to step right in. They were one of the few semi-organized forces left.
Anne Williamson Congressional Testimony (1999)
"It shows how the historic opportunity given the U.S. to help transform Russia into a free, peaceful, pro-Western country was squandered in the form of a bruising economic rape carried out by corrupt Russian politicians and businessmen, assisted by Bush and (especially) Clinton administrations engaged in political payoffs to Wall Street bankers and others, and by ineptitude and greed on the part of the U.S. Treasury and the Harvard Institute for International Development, assisted by fellow travelers and manipulators at Nordex, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Federal Reserve.
The losers were the Russian people and (mainly) U.S. tax-payers."
My impression is that it was a pretty messed-up society before the Bolsheviks took over (mostly based on 19th-century Russian novels I have read).
Karl Marx had only contempt for Russia (either because of its backwardness or because they were Slavs).