Anatoly Chubais Quotes

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• The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to…
• During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
• Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
• Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially…
• For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
• For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but…
• I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
• I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its…
• I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the…
• I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they…
• In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low…
• Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
• There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.
• Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
• You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a…
• Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.
• You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.
• The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
• There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of…
• It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

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