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return. Money is now money. Everthing is available--if you have money!”
Oleg is a well respected theoretical chemist. He is also Jewish, though like most Russian Jews, not religious. That night I had dinner with him and his wife at their house. The Zhirinovsky results had been unexpected and frightening.
“He makes no secret that he is part Jewish on his mother’s side. But some of the worst anti-semites are Jews. Marx was antisemitic. Zhirinovsky is in the tradition of the black shirts. The situation is very dangerous now. Factories are closing one after another. The Kirov tractor factory in Leningrad is laying off 7,000 workers and more factories will close. No one has any money,.” he said.
“These people around Yeltsin and the IMF should read the history of the 30s,” he continued. “Look what happened in Austria after WWI. The country was dismembered like Russia, and the mass unemployment provided fodder for the Nazis. Yet Hitler was not taken seriously. Educated people laughed at him. He was just a passing phenomenon, a protest vote they thought. When we have large scale open unemployment~it is now still hidden because people are not officially fired, they are just not paid or put on leave—then there will be serious problems.”
Mr. Kiser’s report mil continue in future issues.
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