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Vladimir Yakunin
Vladimir Yakunin
Changing Russia in accordance with Western patterns was impossible, former head of the Russian Railways joint-stock company and chairman of the Guardian Council of the Centre of National Glory of Russia Vladimir Yakunin said on Tuesday lecturing at the Russian State Pedagogical University in St.Petersburg describing the liberal reforms of the 1990s.
"The neo-liberal reforms in Russia were carried out with massive support from the West, and today it's clear that modifying Russia, the Russian society in accordance with Western patterns was impossible," Yakunin said.
According to him, "the attempts to integrate into the Western centrist model are absolutely unacceptable to Russia. He noted that "following reforms, Russia lagged far behind the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), [the largest republic within the Soviet Union]."
Yakunin said he was confident that "no place for Russia in the West as an equal member of the world community had ever been planned, these are the illusions the organizers of the so-called perestroika (restructuring) got infected with at the time." "The 'raw materials empire' or the 'energy super power' theory emerged. These are illusions as well, as it only seems that the manufacturer may determine the price. In reality, there is a global beneficiary who has all control levers at his disposal," he noted.
According to Yakunin, in this context, Crimea's return to Russia was "not just the incorporation of the territory but the declaration of an attempt to revive the country's civilizational identity."
Comment: Yakunin's assessment is spot on. The West has sought to subjugate Russia for centuries. They covet the vast resource wealth contained in its territory. Dominating Russia would give it geopolitical advantage over China. It's the final major pieces for The West's psychopathic vision 'full spectrum dominance'.