The 1990s in Russia was capitalism 'in red in tooth and claw,' with no established safeguards, resulting in business disputes being settled with machine guns and no sense of where the system was going; this chaos gave capitalism and democracy a bad name.
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“capitalism in red in tooth and Claw um and I'm not sure the Russians really knew what capitalism was or what was going to happen and in the west the capitalist system has sort of developed a whole series of sort of safeguards that people act within certain parameters in Russia there was none of that you know business feuds were assault with a machine gun”
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How The West Can Stop Putin, with Exiled Critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Intelligence Squared— Intelligence SquaredCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:56:34 PM
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