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How Putin Turned a Western Boycott Into a Bonanza
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2023
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He is definitely a very competent politician, but still let's not give him that much credit. He still inherited soviet infrastructure and a highly educated workforce.
Maximum Soviet infrastructure were all sold and got dismantled. Russia updated the military industrial complex and completely nationalized it after Putin came to power.