Thought it might be an interesting point to discuss as by now, you'd have thought that the country would have sufficiently stabilised to get a real understanding of the benefits and costs.
A few thoughts:
+ Can now buy Western goods
+ Apparently higher level of "spending", which is a way to measure wealth
+ Mafia/corruption
+ Supposed increase in average living spaces
- Loss of provided healthcare, schooling, jobs etc. Implications being an increase in poverty level persons
- Possibly safer from the point of crackdowns on crime
In addition:
Corruption was hidden, but probably there. Was it as bad
Take it away guys?
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25 years on: Average Russian better off since the fall of communism
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