The Own Form of Capitalism..

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..the Russians have created their own form of capitalism in the image of what was portrayed to them as the reality of the West by the old Soviet Union's propaganda machine. They were informed that there was nothing but gangsterism, gross and endemic corruption, naked profiteering, a vast, starving, utterly exploited underclass and a tiny number of rapacious, vicious capitalist crooks who were entirely above the law. Of course, even at its most laissez-faire the West was never remotely like that, but that's what the Russians have now created for themselves.

© Iain Banks, "The Business"



...русские создали свой вариант капитализма по образцу тех картин западной жизни, которые рисовала советская пропаганда. Им внушали, что Запад – это разгул преступности, поголовная коррупция, неприкрытая страсть к наживе, многомиллионный бесправный класс голодающих и кучка злобных, алчных мошенников-капиталистов, попирающих закон. Конечно, даже в самые трудные времена Запад и отдаленно не напоминал такую картину, но русские построили у себя именно этот вариант.

© Йен Бэнкс, "Бизнес"

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