Browder: Putin used oligarchs to get rich

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, financial manager Bill Browder explains how he believes Vladimir Putin uses corruption to enrich himself.

[iamsammi]

trump used the MOB and Russian Oligarchs too so I guess trump and Putin have much more in common than we thought.

[philipellington]

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NOT MY WORK. WORK OF MAX D

[audreyheart]

Fascism is a system of government led by a dictator who typically rules by forcefully and often violently suppressing opposition and criticism, controlling all industry and commerce, and promoting nationalism and often racism. A fascist government often involves the use of violence and the military against its citizens.

Technically, the means of production in Russia can be privately owned, which is a distinction of capitalism. However the private businesses in Russia, especially the major ones, are not free to act as they see fit, so Russia is not capitalist.
The disregard of basic rights, such as the right to private property and the right to a fair trial, renders Russian business owners, as well as ordinary Russians, helpless against the coercive and extortive power of the state. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pavel Durov, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Ziyavudin Magomedov, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Mikhail Kokorich, Michael Calvey are the examples of the major business owners who were stripped of their businesses by the Russian government and its affiliated structures. Smaller businesses run the same kind of danger.
Such a way of handling the economy when the private ownership of the means of production is technically in place but the economic agents are controlled by the government is original to fascism (which is a species of socialism). Hence economically Russia is fascist. - Juri Kissa

[audreyheart]

Hitler did the same in WW2. Other nations didn't help the first 2 lands Hitler conquered. Many people died.

He had “Nazi” newspapers portraying Germans as innocent victims of global evil. The German press alleged Czechoslovak atrocities against Sudeten Germans.. Hitler denounced Czechoslovakia as being a fraudulent state in violation of self-determination..

In 1938, Chamberlain, Britain’s Prime Minister, signed a Peace Treaty with Hitler that Germany could invade Sudetenland, but no more. Czechoslovakia lost 70 per cent of its iron/steel industry, .. Chamberlain thought he had created “peace in our times, ” but he was wrong. The very next year, Germany invaded Poland, and World War II broke out.

Characteristics of Hitler: Authoritarian. Does crackdowns on dissidents and/or free press. Promotes fake news. Expansionist.

[verstwo]

ooooh. the Putin/Trump trolls are going to hate this.

[ty]

I think some Yelstin-era oligarchs still are in the game who just compromised with the new tide some are Vladimir Potanin, Mikhail friedman, Petr Aven etc also some oligarchs also cam from different feat of power such as Alisher Usmanov and Vagit Alekperov these two were powerful in politics one in Uzbekistan (at that time part of Soviet Union) another one from (Azerbaijan part of Soviet) Oil Minister from Yeltsin govt. Also another type of one who cannot be called an Oligarch because he doesn’t operate from Russia or neither citizen but still act and does business as oligarch who is Len Blavatnik.

[theshadowman]

This guy needs to work in Hollywood and write fantasy. What a complete loon.

[MrYesiir]

Just like " Clinton foundation " 😂 😂😂😂