My question does not aim the acquisition of historical knowledge. My question is seeking answer to one of the most popular questions in human history: How to get extremely rich quickly?
I agree that with the word rich I don't distinguish between billionaires, millionaires and simple wealthy. I meant extremely rich people (50 millions of wealth and above)
Through my job as a Financial Advisor with specialization in Russians I tried many times to answer one of the most important questions:
These oligarchs have been already rich and before the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Did rich Russians existed and before 1989?
We all say that Russians before 1989 were leaving under a communistic regime, were the existence of private property was prohibited?
Is this true? Did in reality oligarchs had already accumulate a lot of money before 1989 and when the collapse arrived they just have the resources/money to buy everyrthing that was under privatization?
In my country except from extremely rich Russians we have an extremely rich Chinese.
Chinese are still living in a communistic regime. These people come from China to Cyprus, possessing the resources to buy a house with value one million and a car 100,000 euro. If they have 1,000,000 (house) + 500,000 (deposits) + 100,000 (car) = 1,600,000 euro in insignificant and trivial Cyprus this means that in China they don't have less than 50,000,000 euro.
Where did they found this money from the time the state is communistic?

Restatement of the question:
You want me just to believe that a person who was just clever and ruthless was able to find 1,000,000 euro to buy a state business?
Where he found the money?
Or ... he was just a superior army officer and this state business was just a present to him by the government?

Nothing makes sense.
I know hard working, clever people who will never earn more than 1,000,000 million during their whole life.
If these oligarchs just stole this money without using any skill, cleverness, innovation, social contribution the government should confiscate everything.
Russians should wake up!