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2002-12-22 10:52 | User Profile
Interesting story in 3 parts. No mention of the Jews.
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The Kleptocracies of the East
The process of transition from communism to capitalism was largely hijacked either by outright criminals in budding outfits of organized crime - or by pernicious and all-pervasive kleptocracies: politicians and political parties bent on looting the state and suppressing the opposition, sometimes fatally.
By Sam Vaknin, 12/21/2002
he process of transition from communism to capitalism was largely hijacked either by outright criminals in budding outfits of organized crime - or by pernicious and all-pervasive kleptocracies: politicians and political parties bent on looting the state and suppressing the opposition, sometimes fatally.
In the past 13 years, industrial production in the economies in transition tumbled in real terms by more than 60 percent. The monthly salary in the poorer bits equals the daily wage of a skilled German industrial worker, or one seventh the European Union's average. Gross domestic product per capita is less than one ...............................................
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2002-12-23 06:15 | User Profile
Originally posted by Ed Toner@Dec 22 2002, 10:52 **Interesting story in 3 parts. No mention of the Jews.
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Of course.
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