"I mean that there are really no other recent effects like this in any major population worldwide, except in Russia after the fall of the USSR."
That's because the same thing is happening in both place, albeit at different speeds: a collapsing empire's treasury is being raided by neoliberal oligarchs, while the rest of population suffers …
"I mean that there are really no other recent effects like this in any major population worldwide, except in Russia after the fall of the USSR."
That's because the same thing is happening in both place, albeit at different speeds: a collapsing empire's treasury is being raided by neoliberal oligarchs, while the rest of population suffers for it and yet does nothing, because they're too afraid of losing what little they still have (i.e. their lives) to go up against the might of the empire's internal security apparatuses.
"I mean that there are really no other recent effects like this in any major population worldwide, except in Russia after the fall of the USSR."
That's because the same thing is happening in both place, albeit at different speeds: a collapsing empire's treasury is being raided by neoliberal oligarchs, while the rest of population suffers for it and yet does nothing, because they're too afraid of losing what little they still have (i.e. their lives) to go up against the might of the empire's internal security apparatuses.