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"The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear."
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"I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way."

"I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990."

"For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing."

"You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia."

"The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself."

"The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia."

"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible."

"Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology."

"There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding."

"There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism."
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