Re: U.S. AID TO RUSSIA: WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG

Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:08:17 +0100
Richard K. Moore (rkmoore@iol.ie)

10/10/98, Arno Mong Daastøl wrote:
>The question is how around 12 people got their hands on $ 4 billion in aid
>money from Britain, Germany, Japan, USA, and painted themselves as "young
>reformers", unsupervised by the convening US government.
>
>U.S. AID TO RUSSIA:
>WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG
>Testimony before the
>Committee on International Relations
>U.S. House of Representatives

The thesis that "something went wrong" is highly questionable. The West
has been doing its best to destroy the Soviet Union ever since it was
created, and now a formula has finally been found to grind it into the
dust.

I'll post an article by Michel Chossudovsky, a Canadian economist, which
analyzes IMF policy generally.

rkm