--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
The vouchers could be used by
>them to purchase shares in state enterprises. Of the
147 million
>vouchers, 144 million, or 98 percent of the total,
were picked up,
>making Russia the country with the highest proportion
of
>shareholders in the world at the time.
---
!!!!! Voucher privatization was probably the biggest scam in the history of the world. It was a mechanism for screwing the Russian population.
===== Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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