The part about Yeltsin firing on his own Parliament was very insightful. Again, setting the stage for Russia’s current exercises of Shock.

I just got through the section on Russia. The idea that “Russians weren’t ready for democracy” - WTF! I’ve read so much Cold War propaganda about how much better the US because it was a Democracy™ and then the West pressures Russia to not allow elections? Western money interests are why we have Putin.

I don’t get how any of these “economists” could live with themselves.