toomuchtime_
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You provided no evidence that the US was responsible for Russia's failure in the 1990's. Your link states only that the billions in aid the US sent to Russia and the advisors sent to Russia were unable to prevent the Russian leaders from screwing up the attempted transition from communism to democracy and a market-based economy. The other former Soviet states attempted to make the same transition and all succeeded but Russia because then as now Russia is the most corrupt state in Europe. The only people who made a profit from Russia's failure in the 1990's were corrupt Russians.I provided evidence for my claim the US was responsible for Russia's economic failure in the 1990s; why can't you find a single credible source that refutes my allegations?
The Harvard Boys Do Russia
"The architect of privatization was former First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais, a darling of the U.S. and Western financial establishments.
"Chubais’s drastic and corrupt stewardship made him extremely unpopular.
"According to The New York Times, he 'may be the most despised man in Russia.'
"Essential to the implementation of Chubais’s policies was the enthusiastic support of the Clinton Administration and its key representative for economic assistance in Moscow, the Harvard Institute for International Development.
"Using the prestige of Harvard’s name and connections in the Administration, H.I.I.D. officials acquired virtual carte blanche over the U.S. economic aid program to Russia,"