Good job. If YOU were the communist nomenklatura, which would you prefer: the communist system, where you can have all kinds of perks and goodies but cannot really own them yourself and also face the risk of being purged at some point; or "capitalism," where you can simply allocate the "people's" assets to yourself and then become the owner AND earn the love and respect of the West at the same time? Under which system would you be richer? No one in the West questioned whether the nomenklatura had the
right to all that they grabbed when communism "fell": the West was too busy applauding "capitalism" in the former East.
HAHAHA the joke is on most of us.
"HAHAHA the joke is on most of us. "
People in West are not aware of what really happened. Boris Yeltsin went to privatize the government industries. How did he do it? He gave them away to people who promised to scratch his back in return. The oligarchs that run Russia didn't earn their business empires. They got them by promising to scratch the government's back.