Friday, March 4, 2022

totalitarianism is kleptocracy (mikahil khodorkovsky, 2015)

 Re: "Putin's Way" (2015 PBS documentary)

Fr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgqhU4lkgo

"In reality, every totalitarian system is a kleptocracy." 

-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky (exiled Russian businessman & former youth communist party leader & politician; former oil magnate owning Yukos company ranked #1 as russia's richest & 16th wealthiest in the world by Forbes with estimated 15B$ assets in 2003; incarcerated 4 years x 2 + 10 years in Siberia; 1993 Deputy Minster of Energy, 1997-2004 Chairman & CEO of Yukos)



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