[lbo-talk] sachs and poland

[// ravi]

On Dec 4, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
>> Ravi: "But where does stupidity come in? The guy was given an LHC to
>> play with in Eastern Europe and Russia and he smashed things together
>> to see what happens. A great scientist, no?"
> 
> [WS:]  I think you give him too much credit.  He, and Western
> consultants (the so-called Marriott Brigades) did what Eastern
> Europeans allowed them to do - they simply used them to gain
> legitimacy to their own projects.  Janine Wedel wrote about in her
> book "Collision and Collusion.”
> 

Yes sure, I don’t dispute that - the Eastern European elite or reformists or whoever gave him the economies to mess with.

	—ravi