Once a country is controlled by the chaebol, the result is mostly that it loses its independence and becomes a vassal of Europe and America.
There is a simple reason. The United States is a financial empire, and it is not difficult to control the chaebol of various countries through financial means. 1997 Before the Asian financial crisis, the European and American shares of South Korea's top ten chaebol did not exceed 5%, but after the crisis, 55% of South Korea's Samsung's common shares and 89% of its preferred shares were occupied by western capital, of which American capital accounted for more than 80%.
It can be seen that the United States most wants to see the chaebol of other countries develop and grow, because they can deeply control this country by financial means, which is much more efficient than stationing troops to fight.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia followed the advice of American liberal economist Sachs and engaged in "shock therapy", which led to a large number of state-owned capital falling into the hands of capitalists. These people supported the successful re-election of Yeltsin 1996, and the Russian chaebol and power began to collude, forming a very bad oligarchy trend.
For example, potanin, one of the seven Russian oligarchs, became the deputy prime minister directly, while Chubais, the spokesman of the oligarchs, became the finance minister. Yeltsin stood firm with the support of oligarchs, so he could not exercise the presidency independently.
Russians naturally worship power. Obviously, such a president who only supports Nuo Nuo can't satisfy them.
Seeing that the support rate was about to collapse, Yeltsin panicked.
1In August 1998, under the influence of the Asian financial crisis, a serious financial crisis broke out in Russia. Yeltsin appointed his staunch confidant primakov as Prime Minister and began to solve the serious problem between oligarchy and state rights.
As a senior intelligence expert, primakov is good at cracking down on economic crimes. After taking office, he intends to target the financial oligarch berezovsky. This person was selected by Forbes as the "ninth richest man in the world" with 1997, and was praised by Americans as "the red godfather of the Kremlin". His greed for power has reached a crazy level.
After primakov took office, he began to investigate berezovsky's economic problems from the debt problem, and found important evidence that he eavesdropped on the phone of the president's family. However, as an American financial oligarch, berezovsky had nothing to hide. Instead, through his media, he turned his back and led to the dismissal of the Russian Attorney General by means of public opinion.
The Russian political arena in the 1990s was so chaotic that no one could stand the scrutiny of the capital and the media. Seeing that the financial giant made a big move to kill a larger foe, the relevant government officials panicked, so the matter went away.
Before and after the financial crisis, Russian oligarchs became more and more out of control, and Yeltsin, who relied on oligarchs, was unable to control the situation, which led to the intensification of the polarization between the rich and the poor in Russia and the economic collapse, which aroused great indignation among the people.
At this rate, Russia will become an oligarchy, similar to the poor version of South Korea. This is also the ending that the western world most wants to see.
At the critical moment when Russia is about to enter the abyss, on the last day of the 20th century, Russian President Yeltsin officially announced his resignation, and Putin, the son of Russia's natural selection, took office.
On this symbolic day, the Russians launched a desperate self-help. Putin's appointment seems to have re-injected the soul into the whole country. In the economic field, many oligopolistic agents supported by Europe and America were eliminated within three to five years.
The iron-blooded tough guy from KGB once solemnly promised to "destroy the oligarch class" with his fist.
Compared with Yeltsin, Putin has a great advantage in addition to his strong personal charm, that is, Putin is Russia's Putin and Yeltsin is only Yeltsin of Yeltsin's family.
Putin deeply understands that the Yeltsin family is the largest oligarch in Russia. To cure the Russian economy, we must first solve the problem of this predecessor.
Traditionally, solving the "first family" is a bone-breaking thing in any country. Surprisingly, in such a complicated situation in Russia, Putin succeeded in withdrawing the Yeltsin family from the historical stage through talks.
After Putin came to power, he signed a bill to protect the lives and property of Yeltsin's family, and then persuaded Yeltsin's daughter Diacenco and his core agent Voloshin to quit politics.
In the confrontation between Putin and oligarchs, the Yeltsin family never stood up against Putin. It can be seen that the new president really persuaded this super family with a temporary scenery.
After successfully subduing the oligarch's power backer, Putin began to strike hard and use thunder to clean up these domestic capital minions.
On May 9, 2000, at the first military parade after Putin took office, Gusinski, one of the "seven oligarchs of Russia", wanted to be the scapegoat for Putin. Today, he viciously attacked Putin through his own newspaper, and his words were quite unscrupulous.
Without saying anything, Putin ordered a forced search of Gusinski's media groups two days later, and arrested the oligarch on charges of embezzling state-owned assets a month later. The man couldn't get along in Russia and later went to live in Israel.
On July 9, 2000, the aforementioned "ninth richest man in the world" and super oligarch berezovsky openly rebelled against Putin's repressive policy, resigned as a member of parliament on the spot, and threatened to set up an opposition party to confront the new government for a long time.
Putin scoffed and ordered State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China to investigate this person's tax evasion case. After obtaining sufficient evidence, the arraignment and interrogation began on February 2 of that year 165438. Berezovsky knew that his ass was dirty, so he fled to Britain for refuge and died in London on 20 13.
After being cleaned up, both oligarchs fled to the west at the first time and were well protected, which made the Russians suddenly realize that these people were really lackeys of western capital and worshipped Putin more.
In July 2000, when Putin cleaned up berezovsky, his approval rate rose to 72%. You know, at that time, Russia was in chaos, and such support rate simply shocked the chin of western audiences.
The oligarchy has been hit, and the plans of European and American countries to control Russia through financial means are about to go bankrupt. Some capitalists are in a hurry and have no time to act. They want to show their cards directly and sell Russian core assets to the United States.
In 2004, energy oligarch Khodorkovsky tried to sell his 40% stake in Yukos Company to American energy giant ExxonMobil. At that time, Yukos was the largest oil company in Russia, and Russia was a big energy exporter. This operation is a betrayal.
Putin is well aware of this. In order to defend state-owned assets, he decided that the government would take back control of energy.
At the end of 2004, the Russian oil company controlled by the Russian government acquired the core energy assets of Yukos, and directly declared Yukos bankrupt on August 1 the following year.
This move offended the interests of the West and caused the Western media to "scream", but the Russian people applauded.
It must be said that if it were not for Putin's thunderous tactics, Russia's energy would probably be in the hands of the United States now. In this case, Russia will lose its most important bargaining chip in balancing Western Europe.
During Putin's tenure, Russia basically walked out of the road of western design and explored a more independent development path.
After coming out of the pit, the Russian economy was quickly repaired. During Putin's first two terms, Russia's economic aggregate increased by 70% in eight years, the real income of residents increased by 1 times, and the gap between the rich and the poor decreased from 24 times in Yeltsin's era to 14 times. Despite western sanctions, I finally saw some hope.
Who is the hero of the people and who is the sinner of the country, the Russian people have their own answers.