Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
am completely speechless by those graphs. I really would not have thought it was like that. I thought that the USSR was running poorly quite poorly during the last years, of its existance, and that perestroika was an attempt at fixing that, which went out of hand, so to speak.
This is because of the so called "shock therapy" promoted by American economists which were councillors on free market at the time, which promised that a fast and a sudden transition to capitalism ("shock") would cure Russia. They listened them and everythign only got worse. I think if they'd stick to a more gradual transition, then we wouldn't have the present situation. Now try not to think about some kind of American Anti-Russian conspiracy to ruin our country that was involved in that shock therapy advice we naively followed.