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If Russia survives this attempt by America, do you think Russia will return to a communist system similar to China's very successful system of communism/capitalism.I think you have to consider the motive for tethering Russia.
The best example I've seen so far came at the end of the Cold War when the Harvard Boys looted Russian natural resources and created the oligarch class we see in that country today:
The Harvard Boys Do Russia
"Ater seven years of economic 'reform' financed by billions of dollars in U.S. and other Western aid, subsidized loans and rescheduled debt, the majority of Russian people find themselves worse off economically.
"The privatization drive that was supposed to reap the fruits of the free market instead helped to create a system of tycoon capitalism run for the benefit of a corrupt political oligarchy that has appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars of Western aid and plundered Russia’s wealth.
"The architect of privatization was former First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais..."