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348 w/ Matt Taibbi "Richard Perle in New Jersey, Putin in Hell, Ukraine in Crisis"

The Fifth Column

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What a Great Idea, Sesio Factory, Is

In a country like hungary, which got to start much earlier, right? They sold g e. The government did in 19 80. R not g they sold their liftball factory to g in 19 88. For like that 500 million dollars. All right, you're the highest bidder. You on a hundred per cent. Take out the middle man. And then this started an entire process of just miraculous amounts of corruption. It was some takin weird cowboys as tru it is true that you you get a something, that is, if you have some sort of democratic institutions. Russia obviously didn't have that,. and hasn't had that in a very, very, very long time

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