Russian health crisis

[Brad De Long]

>[From the Heritage Foundation, of all places, via Johnson's Russia List.
>The full piece is about 72k. The irruption of ideology towards the end
>betrays the source. So are the 5 million "excess deaths" the partial work
>of the IMF and U.S. government, just as Chinese famine deaths were Mao's
>fault?]

Yes.

The failure to do a Marshall Plan for Russia in 1989 (or 1991, or 1993) was
a catastrophe...

Brad DeLong