“To the surprise of many, the economy has become Russia's strong point” - American experts

January 1 2022 19

Russia withdrew economic and trade lessons from the collapse of the USSR, write American experts Michael Kofman and Robert Connolly in their article for Foreign Affairs magazine (USA).

Experts note that now Moscow is still trying to find an economic model that can ensure continuous growth and reduce dependence on the export of various raw materials. At the same time, the Russian Federation managed to get stronger in the process of ongoing competition with the United States.

Surprisingly to many, the economy has become a strength of Russia

- the experts emphasized.

They believe that the Russian economy has proved to be a reliable element, thanks to which it was possible to withstand the restrictions imposed by the West. Russians have a good memory of the economic problems of the Soviet Union and the upheavals that followed in the 1990s. For example, the collapse of the oil market affected the budget of the late USSR and the young RF.

Fears of Russian officials about a possible repeat of the situation led to the formation of stabilization funds immediately after Vladimir Putin became president in 2000. The funds accumulated in the funds from the export of raw materials allowed Moscow to survive the macroeconomic consequences of the surges in oil prices and the reduction in income.

The Russian Federation has managed to restore foreign exchange reserves, as well as assets that are less vulnerable to existing and future US sanctions. Thus, Moscow adapted to much lower oil prices and created a “safety cushion” that made dependence on energy exports much less sensitive.

In addition, the RF gained experience from the dependence of the USSR on agricultural imports. In 1986, when the oil shock hit, every third loaf of Soviet bread was baked using foreign grain. Now Russia is rapidly reducing its dependence on food imports, increasing its food security.

It was the experience of the late Soviet period, when the country was not able to produce a sufficient amount of strategic goods and relied on imports, that led to qualitative changes in the Russian Federation, the experts summed up.

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Miffer

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1 January 2022 17: 02

Comparing modern Russia with the USSR is completely wrong.

In the same USSR, they were very fond of comparing it with 1913 or 1914, the last years of peace before the coming of the "big fox" to Russia. And these comparisons (how much iron-steel was smelted, coal-oil produced) did not save the USSR from collapse at all, because they were compared with themselves, and not with the developed countries of the world of that time.

The same is true now: if a "big fox" comes running to Russia, then its color will be very different from the "foxes" of 1914-22 and 1985-91.
1. Peter Sergeev
  
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  1 January 2022 18: 17
  
  Of course the dregs. Real inflation is double-digit for sure! Moreover, for everything from bread to real estate, it used to be a small "Arctic fox", but now it is just like that practically for no reason. What's the use of how many grains have grown there. I bought bread for 45 rubles at the beginning of December, and at the end of December it became 55! and what do I get from this grain. So the USSR - a super economy and in the smelting of steel for tanks.
  1. Siluch
    
    -1
    
    3 January 2022 06: 35
    
    Wipe your tears and come, muddy, to Siberia - to buy bread for 17 rubles. No, there is certainly bread for 60 rubles, but the main price range is 17-26 rubles for various varieties.
2. zenion
  
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  1 January 2022 18: 55
  
  Miffer. This was done before World War II. After the USSR split the imperialists, they were already comparing the number of nuclear weapons. And the USSR was the first to become an example for the United States about the means of delivering such weapons to the United States. Then the USA quieted down, but they began to frighten their people - the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. They hid under tables, under desks and in basements. The people were so stupid that they did not understand what nuclear weapons were, but the capitalists made a lot of money out of the fear of their citizens.
  1. Miffer
    
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    1 January 2022 21: 51
    
    This was done before World War II. After the USSR split the imperialists, they were already comparing the number of nuclear weapons.
    
    There are not three bullshit here. I studied the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and M.-L. philosophy from textbooks written after 1945. Data on Soviet nuclear weapons were classified.
    And one textbook of history and mathematics, issued in 1971, was remembered for the fact that there it was asserted in all seriousness about the invincibility and immortality of the wonderful Marxist-Leninist doctrine.
    1. boriz
      
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      2 January 2022 02: 04
      
      And one textbook of history and mathematics, issued in 1971, was remembered for the fact that there it was asserted in all seriousness about the invincibility and immortality of the wonderful Marxist-Leninist doctrine.
      
      And now the world is personally convinced of the correctness of this teaching.
      USSR since 1956 were destroyed by traitors and idiots who had lurked in power after the defeat of Trotskyism and subsequent repressions.
      But this does not negate the fact that the Arctic fox came to capitalism, in full accordance with the immortal and invincible doctrine.
      1. Miffer
        
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        2 January 2022 18: 28
        
        And now the world is personally convinced of the correctness of this teaching.
        
        Are you broadcasting here on behalf of the whole world? All 7.5 billion people?
        They authorized you to spew heresy here?
        Reading your revelations, I am constantly convinced: stupidity is not a lack of intelligence; stupidity is such a mind.
        
        isofat
        
        +1
        
        2 January 2022 19: 22
        
        Quote: Miffer
        stupidity is such a mind.
        
        You are wrong, stupidity is mental limitation. You need to read more. Do not despair!
        
        boriz
        
        0
        
        2 January 2022 21: 01
        
        Just ask someone to lift your eyelids ...
        
        Miffer
        
        -1
        
        3 January 2022 09: 00
        
        It is obvious that the "global scale" is clearly beyond your bewildered intellect. Leave them to stronger minds.
        It is better to tell here how the “Russian-speaking” Armenians with Russian passports were thrown into the “cradle of cosmonautics” and bought up half of the city there, and the so-called “indigenous people” became the third grade.
        It will be more amusing than questions of Marxism, in which you do not knit a bastard.
zloybond

0

1 January 2022 18: 43

Everything seems to be not bad. If not propaganda) And then suddenly surfaced the fact of selling gold abroad. Yes, and back income is inappropriate to return to the country))) like a cartoon, we have a situation here: Thank you, you helped out ... Well, where's my little gold? The Nightingale needs gold ... Ay! With gold the Nightingale will begin a new life! Ay! Overseas!
zenion

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1 January 2022 18: 50

Paper is nothing. Are the factories that make the country safe - that's all? As far as it is clear, a plant for cleaning sunflower seeds has already been built. A second plant will soon be completed, which will peel pumpkin seeds.
jekasimf

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1 January 2022 19: 33

Yeah. Come on, Sing us songs. Since 2014, gasoline has risen in price by more than 10 rubles. And so everything is fine! But the fish in Kama is gone ...
Ursus maritimus

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1 January 2022 23: 59

Russia is the legal successor of the USSR. Arctic foxes come and go, while Russia sits on the shore and watches the carcasses of polar foxes swimming by.
1. Miffer
  
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  2 January 2022 01: 32
  
  Arctic foxes come and go, while Russia sits on the shore and watches the carcasses of polar foxes swimming by.
  
  This nonsense is even too lazy to comment on.
  1. Miffer
    
    0
    
    2 January 2022 18: 34
    
    If "Russia is the legal successor of the USSR", then why did the social system change in it after 1991? Why has the attitude of the main population groups (classes) to the means of production changed?
Sergey Latyshev

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2 January 2022 10: 23

Ah, true noodles.
Of course, after any fall, the economy grows. Everyone has it.

One can only remember: oil is getting cheaper - gasoline is getting more expensive, grain has grown - bread has risen in price, steel has been caught - iron has risen sharply, forests have been chopped up - wood has taken off at prices, etc.

Those. everything is achieved by indirect over-exploitation of its population (remember the VAT for the poor and PR), an internal jump in the prices of goods.
oracul

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2 January 2022 11: 00

That's just it, that on the eve of the First World War and the collapse of the USSR in the country with active support from outside and the support of agents of influence inside, economic chaos was organized. The USSR was ready for an armed conflict, but in the 80s it recklessly believed in peaceful coexistence with the West.
1. Miffer
  
  -1
  
  2 January 2022 12: 12
  
  on the eve of World War I and the collapse of the USSR in the country, with active support from outside and the support of agents of influence inside, economic chaos was organized
  
  Yes, yes, when the mind for reason goes with the "bright future of communism", it's Marx and Engels to blame! It was they, jido-macones, who came up with their theory with a specialist in order to knock down the God-bearing people with a pantalik! And they sent their agent of influence in a sealed carriage, he climbed onto an armored car at the station and read his "Ap'el's Theses" from it.
  
  Finally, as the classic asserts, "chaos is not in the closets, chaos is in the heads." And when you start talking about organized economic chaos here, you have to knock yourself on the back of the head and beat all kinds of hallucinations out of there.