Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
No, of course there were no Russians that were rich in a meaningful way prior to glasnost.
Those people who were rich before the revolution left the country. If they didn't, they eventually lost everything and became regular citizens.

Perhaps some superstar singers and the odd criminal were rich in Soviet times, but not regular people, even people with really important jobs.

Like I explained those super rich people took advantage of the conditions in the 1990s, at the very end of the USSR, or just after. (it held on to 1992).

Probably it's not possible to become super-rich in Russia as fast as the first generation of oligarchs did, anymore.

The modern day financial market in Russia is apparently well regulated and functions similarly to any other stock exchange in the world.
As I notice this extremely rich Russians continue to become richer.
How can this happens from the time the economy of Russia is now in a severe crisis (the GDP growth is less than 2%)?
I think that Russia has one of the worst economic systems and more socially unfair from all the industrial countries.