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Yelian Garcia's avatar

What a brilliant read! As a "finance guy" I feel that our industry often misses the historical context of it all. Cheers!

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Ahmetov got "rights" to such a big plant by illegal privatization, that happened on all post- Soviet Union space in 1990 th by US demanding to privatized government properties.It is still very debated question in post- Soviet world: should we review results of this "privatization": since government owned all industries, government gave every citizen of every area a share in some industry, this oligarchs lije Ahmetov bought them up at negligent price, people were not educated on economics and the industry was artificially bankrupted too.So, does he have rights on something that a whole country built for half of century??- my grandma would turn in her coffin. Neither does Ukraine have rights to Crimea or Eastern Donbass, because Ukraine got it just for 30 years by doings of US when Soviet Union was destroyed.Never-ever before was Ukraine a state on its own- it was either with Poland or with Russia.Unfortunately their new found independence got quickly corrupt: they went to look for "sugar daddy "- US and NATO. And those two created russuan hatred in Ukraine, and now it's an Antislavic War, because both, and Russians and Ukrainians die, I don't see Ahmetov going in the field to fight though- 2 mln Ukrainian untrained men will die, but ge will drink champagne on his yachtes, it is a war against Russia by hands of Ukrainians, but neither two are spared. West doesn't care about 2 mln Ukrainians, they just will send them more weapons to turn Ukraine into new Vietnam, Ukrainian army is putting land mines on beaches in Mariupol, so kids will get blown up there for years, just to protect the dollar to remain the world currency and maintain idea of free markets(antimonopoly laws fir governments, not for corporations)and 0% interst rates, so corporations can extract more resources, and have no limits, like that Ahmetov.How much is average pension in Ukraine- 100 dollars/ month? Where did Ahmetov put the huge money he made?

In his pocket, pockets EU leaders probably, kids in schools don't have free meals, they are poor, it's a shame, not a democracy.Is he paying any Royalty taxes? Royalty on oil is 68% in Saudi Arabia, Norway has a government oil fund, Russian kids have free meals. I feel like we live in the West in Nazy Germany: You tube channels get blocked, just like Hitler was burning books, everyone knows that US is selling Treasury bonds and nothing else in exchange for Chinese goods now, used to for oil, but its ok to allow a whole country to be a bum.

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