Russian Mafia Control the New Market.
The mafias in Russia greatly accelerated the transition from a command to a market economy, but in the process have created a larger problem than socialism could possibly deem. The concept of bribery and thievery has all came predominantly and originally from socialism, which resulted in shortages in the economy. The government could not provide people with basic necessities (Sterling). People would either have to manipulate the system at hand, or suffer. This led to black market originally and the concept of corruption has been expanded to a broader playing field, a market economy. .
Democracy prevailed in Russia in 1991 under Boris Yeltsin after the fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. Successful reforms in Russia or any country for that matter are not due to sound government, but sound business (Jasper). The same KGB officers of the Soviet came back into power when Yeltsin hired many of them for his new government. The KGB consolidated powers with the mafia and took over private businesses. They exploited private ownership rights. They thrived in the free market that provided them mobility, relaxed borders, and money from abroad (Van Hook). The mafia went from feeding off the economy during socialism, to owning the economy with market economy. With privatization, literally everything in Russia went up for sale, and the mafia bought it up. They supplied, and the mafia demanded. The mafia has a hand in 80% of banks and private enterprises (Van Hook). They own the economy. They are supreme rulers of Russia, with more power than the government. They actually have people in the government working for them. The transition to capitalism was definitely hurried by involvement of mafia. But, the country is not better off. Russia is corrupt as anybody could imagine. They take what they want by force, and are feared by all. It is nearly impossible to make an honest living in Russia.
The mafia was established and equipped to amplify its business during market reforms. ... Many Russians came to believe that this distorted form of mafia control is the normal free- enterprise system. ... This is how they sustain control. ... It was one of the many new stores springing up in the new Russia. ... The Russian mafia controls almost every aspect of the Russian market. ...
There are limits, then, to how far one can rely on the political system to steer or control the economy. ... (Socialism Today, 1998) The capitalists proclaimed they had laid the foundations for a new era of faster world growth. ... Nobody predicted that the best way to bring about the down fall of the capitalist system might be for Russia to embrace it- Since the conversion from communism to that of capitalism, Russia has been pillaged by the mafia bourgeoisie and the robber barons of international monopoly capitalism. ... The virtual economy was stirred in 1995, when the printing of mon...
Slogans were nothing new in the USSR with huge posters carrying slogans everywhere, and had been so for years. ... Like America during prohibition, the Mafia took control and has plagued Russia ever since. ... The mafia to this day is still a major problem in Russia and it is because of Gorbachev's reforms. ... According to research by the Russian Ministry of the Interior, over 40,000 privatized enterprises in Russia have ties to organized crime. ... This was in hopes to establish a free enterprise market. ...
The Mafia, of Sicilian origin, has played a major role. Criminal organizations have flourished in other countries as well such as the Yukuza of Japan, the Chinese Triad societies, the cocaine cartels of Colombia, and the brutal Russian Mafia. ... They curtailed extortion and racketeered, and expanded white-collar crimes involving areas such as the stock market. ... By 1925, there were over 100,000 speak-easies in New York City alone. ... The crime increased because the legal jobs were being destroyed by the black market violence, which flourished due to the Prohibition. ...
The new parliament was filled with ex-communist; thus, they resisted free market reforms. ... The economic operation was now under the control of the new local authority; hence, negotiation without legal bases. ... Creating a market economy was the greatest problem facing the former Soviet Union: its success depended on its new leaders ability at replacing the old system of central planning with a market economy. ... These private markets were extremely high priced compared to the price controlled goods of the previous communist government. Problems for the free market included a lack of p...
Tax revenues last year were running at about $1 billion per month (less than that of New York City), yet the government was spending $1.5 billion per month. ... One of Russia's main exports is oil, and the decline in price has greatly reduced Russia's trading power on the international market. ... They could have expanded their trading relationship with Russia by further opening its markets, and engaging with competent Russian regions and institutions. ... This would be an alternative to the "damage control" focus that the West engaged in. Russia represents a fantastic market opportu...
China might need to look back on the transitions other countries such as Russia and Mexico made or has been making in order to learn from their mistakes. ... It can be described as Hong Kong with capitalism out of control, without order. ... For example, Russia was previously a command economy with communist leadership, and has now been trying to reform into a market economy. The problem they had after The Soviet had seized to exist was that there was corruption within management and ownership of newly privatized businesses because of mafia relations, there was no experienced leadership of...
The collapse of the Soviet aid in the early 1990s forced Cuba to implement many economic reforms to stimulate new sources of foreign investment and develop new trading partners. ... CUBA DURING THE 1940-1950's: Cuba in the fifties was virtually an American colony run by Batiste for the benefit of American sugar barons and the Mafia. Against overwhelming odds, Castro and his comrades of the 26th of July Movement marched into Havana on New Years Day 1959, victorious. ... To save the Cuban economy, Castro had no choice but to become a client of the Soviet Union, bartering its sugars...
This was called the New World Order. ... It is widely believed that through IMF, the World Bank, and national debt, they control the economies of many nations. ... Another widespread world take over conspiracy theory, is the claim that Jews had planned a world take over by controlling banks around the world. ...
