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How Putin Turned a Western Boycott Into a Bonanza (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He is definitely a very competent politician, but still let's not give him that much credit. He still inherited soviet infrastructure and a highly educated workforce.

[โ€“] mughaloid@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Maximum Soviet infrastructure were all sold and got dismantled. Russia updated the military industrial complex and completely nationalized it after Putin came to power.