2/18/22 Anne Williamson on How the US Sabotaged Russia’s Economy after the Fall of the Soviet Union

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Scott interviews former reporter Anne Williamson about the flawed privatization of Russia after the fall of the USSR. While privatization had mixed success across the former Soviet Bloc, Russia ran into problems immediately with a poor definition of property rights. Williamson explains how this was not a mistake but was designed by American economists and businessmen who wanted to hold Russia down while enriching themselves. Williamson connects the dots to show how those policies led, in part, to the rise of Putin and the tension between the West and Russia today. Discussed on the show: “Testimony of Anne Williamson” (ScottHorton.org) “Russia: Don't Cry for Yukos” (Mises Institute) Anne Williamson is a former reporter who covered Russia for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times during the 1990s. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	Okay, you guys, on the line, I've got former Wall Street Journal reporter Ann Williamson. And, first of all hi Ann welcome the show how are you doing?
0:56.7	I'm doing great. Thanks for having me out Scott. Happy to have you here so you are kind of a mysterious figure because you're known as among, you know, some friends of mine anyway and to me as kind of the key, the one person who really explained well how it was that America
1:18.5	influenced the destruction of the Russian economy in the 1990s and you were said to have written this book.
1:28.6	Well first of all there's this wonderful testimony that you gave to Congress in 1999 which I've plagiarized
1:36.4	and reprinted at my website Scott Horton.org slash fair use people can find it there
1:41.5	where you describe all this and you say in here and in other places it's referred to the fact that you wrote
1:47.5	a book about it that as far as I can tell has never been published one guy at the
1:52.0	New York Review of Books I think it was called
1:53.9	it a widely read manuscript and here we are having a conversation 20 years later and nobody's
2:00.0	ever read this thing as far as I know so I'm going to start this interview with
2:03.6	offer would you like me to publish this book for you or what is the deal?
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