Our next PM’s nightmare inheritance
The News Agents
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What Are the Political Consequences of Deep Disillusionment?
Alen Borcaste was the moscow correspondent in the years after gorbachof's death. He recalls a run on rouble, with people trying to get their money out of banks in hard currency. Many middle class russians lost their life savings rampant inflation. They were looking for a way to say, we've been cheated. We've been robbed. This western dream that was sold to us has been sold to us in order to enrich a tiny elite and make the rest of us poor.
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