If in 1989 someone would tell me that in 2013 Russia would be Pro-Capitalist and the US Pro-Marxist, I would have laughed. Sadly, we are now living with this paradox. Russian President Vladimir Putin had an exchange with an elderly Russian lady who was pining for the days of the old Soviet system. Putin then goes on to state the role of Government is not to nationalize businesses.
President Putin prefers a free market and capitalism over socialism. It must be true. Otherwise the Communist US government and western media would favor Putin. Instead they brand him as a tyrant or dictator. They try often in making him look like them when he is not a Communist. Khrushchev’s 1959 prediction came true and now most US citizens do not know they are in the USSR on American soil. The universe has changed and the other side of the world is free as Putin prefers capitalism over socialism.
Yes, President Vladimir Putin has been weaning Russia from socialism to capitalism ever since he used oil revenues to pay off the debt owed to the IMF and others. He has been promoting fewer taxes for small businesses and a conservative approach to economics and society. Half the governors have been fired in Russia for corruption and he even threatened a governor to improve dental care. He has helped the largest country in the world out of darkness and there is still more to be done. Yet, he has found the time and energy to lead the world by its hand towards peace and economic prosperity which the US has helped to destroy.
“the task of the state doesn’t consist in nationalizing those companies…
we should use the money which we get as taxes from them to develop the country”
The world has definitely changed when you have Pravda calling the US Communist. Both Nixon and Khrushchev turned out to be correct that the US would one day be Communist and Russia Capitalist.
The world is turned upside down!
Tags: Capitalism, Vladimir Putin
