An Oxford University study, published by the prestigious international medical journal Lancet, analyzed the tax consequences of privatization in the old countries that were part of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The result kept by David Stuckler and other scholars is impressive: the capitalist reforms, privatization, have led to the deaths of at least a million people (of working age males). This is because there was an increase in the mortality rate of 12.8%, a rise in the unemployment caused by neoliberal policies, was abandoned when the Soviet system and adopted the Western capitalist system. The result of the reforms was a rise in unemployment over the period 1991 - 1994 of about 56%, a real social massacre: the worst affected were the Republics of Russia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania had a male mortality tripled. Scholars have noted that the fastest and total were the disposal of the state, the higher the mortality (in other words the two phenomena seem related). We recall some rights enjoyed by citizens of the former Soviet Union were deprived in the name of so-called Western democracy and the capitalist system dell'efficentissimo (efficient for a few bankers and capitalists and gangsters, a bit less generous, to say the least, for the rest of the population): the right to work, carrying with it the right to housing and public health care. Economic escaped extermination those living in countries with more cohesive family structures. Ovvamente, University of Oxford is careful not to indict the capitalist system, blaming it all on a reckless speed in the application of Western countries did not substantially ready for a similar shock therapy.
But let's see who were the architects of the disaster in those countries at that time: after the disastrous experience of Gorbachev, which effectively dismissed the communist system (the historian Canfora argues that it was a real betrayal of his country) 's West put the alcoholic President Yeltsin (or Yeltsin), who led the Russian economy to fail (to the applause of liberals around the world) by delivering it in the hands of organized crime. Than he remembers, while Russia finished the abyss sparking widespread protests, the outrageous bombing of the Duma (October 1993), or Parliament, which was supported by a substantial proportion of the population exhausted by the economic "reforms" of Yeltsin and his band of pro-Western advisers. Fortunately, his presidency ended December 31, 1999 with the succession of Vladimir Putin.
But let's see who were the architects of the disaster in those countries at that time: after the disastrous experience of Gorbachev, which effectively dismissed the communist system (the historian Canfora argues that it was a real betrayal of his country) 's West put the alcoholic President Yeltsin (or Yeltsin), who led the Russian economy to fail (to the applause of liberals around the world) by delivering it in the hands of organized crime. Than he remembers, while Russia finished the abyss sparking widespread protests, the outrageous bombing of the Duma (October 1993), or Parliament, which was supported by a substantial proportion of the population exhausted by the economic "reforms" of Yeltsin and his band of pro-Western advisers. Fortunately, his presidency ended December 31, 1999 with the succession of Vladimir Putin.
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