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For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn’t use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.
You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn’t have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.
I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That’s the Russian interest in this process.
For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn’t be predicted by the state.
Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.
These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.
There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents’ protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.
The diversification of the people’s demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.
I’m communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.
Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.
