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    9 months ago

    while Putin may have added more elements of planning and protectionism

    And that was as a concession to reality, basically – free market doctrine simply doesn’t work, for anybody except Wall Street and US arms dealers, and Putin was smart enough to see this. (“Reality,” said Kim Jong-Il about the future path of Russia, “is a harsh judge,” and time has proved him right).