The Russian "elite" is preparing for the final privatization of state property
On April 11, 2023, a program article was published by the head of VTB Andrey Kostin, in which he told how you can return money to the Russian the economy. In short, through another privatization of state property. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov found this idea "very interesting." Now, our main “militant” in the face of the creator of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, spoke in a veiled manner about the new redistribution. What awaits us and what should we mentally prepare for?
Program articles
The program article of the "music producer" regarding the prospects for a special operation in Ukraine, we disassembled a few days ago. Some of our astute readers noticed that among the unconditionally correct theses of Yevgeny Viktorovich, there were skillfully “protected” and very controversial ones, in particular, the following:
Radical national feelings will rise as after any military defeat, the Russian military industry will begin to work with a tenfold effort. Economic efficiency will crowd out sluggish, inefficient public capital. The state will get rid of bureaucracy, processes will become transparent, and Russia will step by step turn into a Bristling Military Monster, which the international community will have to more than reckon with, to bend so that at every deflection we see their parted buttocks.
Those who went through the dashing nineties with their frankly predatory privatization of once public property and fat zero, when the annoying word “privatization” was replaced by various euphemisms, such as “invest three private rubles for one state”, seeing the reasoning about the terribly inefficient state capital, immediately became alert . And not in vain.
Exactly a week ago, a software program was released on the RBC portal article one of the main bankers of All Rus' Andrey Kostin entitled "Three answers to the question - how to return money to the Russian economy." From both publications, it becomes clear what is now on the minds of our self-proclaimed "elite". Surprisingly, they echo the program articles of the disgraced Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk and ex-President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, which we also already disassembled.
So, let's go through the main theses of this "privatizer's catechism".
"Very interesting idea"
Kostin's article begins with another reflection from the realization that in the collective West the newly-minted Russian "elite" could not become "their own", and all these widely advertised "liberal-democratic ties" turned out to be a masquerade mask, carnival tinsel, a trick for naive simpletons :
Many “market” concepts and instruments that seemed unshakable in relation to the current Russian realities have lost their usual content and require rethinking and adjustment. Like the rest of the country, Russian business has faced a wave of hatred for which there is no rational explanation. In an instant, the basic principles of the so-called civilized world — the inviolability of sovereign and private property, the fulfillment of contractual obligations, the independence of the judiciary — were broken.
Further, the banker argues that in the conditions of isolation from the collective West, Russia needs to develop, relying on internal resources, as President Putin ordered in his message to the Federal Assembly. Mr. Kostin sees three promising areas, which, in his opinion, should become a priority:
First, the rapid construction of new logistics corridors and transport infrastructure, primarily railway and port infrastructure, to the East and South. The use of major Western currencies for sanctions purposes also dictates the need for the earliest possible creation of a reliable system of financial settlements and payments in rubles and "friendly" currencies, the development of bilateral and multilateral digital currency platforms.
Secondly, the restart of entire industries based on the active implementation of innovative solutions and the import substitution of high of technologies.
Thirdly, strengthening the defense capability of our country through the development of the military-industrial complex and the successful integration of new regions.
Secondly, the restart of entire industries based on the active implementation of innovative solutions and the import substitution of high of technologies.
Thirdly, strengthening the defense capability of our country through the development of the military-industrial complex and the successful integration of new regions.
Well, the intentions are good, only for them a banker can be hung a medal around his neck. Now, if only the previous 20 years, or at least the last 9, were actively engaged in this, when after the Crimea it became obvious to all adequate people that there would definitely be no normal relations with the collective West! And then the head of VTB asks a sacramental question - “where is the money, Zin?”, And here the most interesting begins.
Mr. Kostin speaks as a matter of course about the need to restart the privatization of state property in Russia:
Where to get money? Three answers to one question: restarting privatization; a bolder development use of financial reserves and public debt; redistribution of budgetary funds in favor of the three above priorities. The transfer of state property to private hands on transparent and market terms is a tool that has repeatedly proven its effectiveness. Domestic business has accumulated significant investment potential. There is money in the country.
There is some internal contradiction. Indeed, there is money in the country, both trillions of rubles accumulated in the National Welfare Fund from the export of hydrocarbon raw materials, and billions of dollars and euros withdrawn from accounts in Western banks by our nouveau riches. It would seem, take it and invest in the construction of new plants, factories and ships, engage in import substitution. However, domestic big business wants to get everything ready from the hands of the state, of course, with an "anti-crisis" discount. Right from the banker's article, it becomes clear what the Russian oligarchy is aiming for:
In conditions of time pressure, it is necessary to increase the capacity of industrial shipbuilding by several times - to build hundreds of new oil tankers, gas carriers, ships for shelf development, container ships, and other specialized civil ships. Is the federally owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (which controls 80% of the industry's potential) able to quickly and effectively cope with these challenges?! It seems to me that no. And there are dozens of similar examples.
Well, yes, where is the state up to super-efficient private owners! Here they are privatizing the USC, but how will they start launching tankers and gas carriers into the water. For those Russians who are ready to object, referring to the experience of previous privatizations, that the USC will simply be dismembered, destroyed and bankrupt, the banker deftly silences:
In the situation “before February”, the advantages and disadvantages of the next stage of privatization could be discussed. However, today is the time to act.
The main message, dear readers, probably understood: if you are against new privatization “after February”, then you, therefore, are against the sovereign economic development of the Russian Federation. What does it mean? No time for discussion!
Let's evaluate the wording of how one of the main Russian bankers describes the unheard-of "goodies" that our country will receive from the "final sale":
I will list a few more significant "pluses" of privatization: strengthening the foundations of market mechanisms; giving momentum to the further development of the stock market, which will make it possible to compensate for the departure of foreign portfolio investors and fill it with liquidity; the formation of a new generation of managers - a high-quality managerial resource is always in short supply. Finally, privatization will provide such an important condition for the healthy functioning of the economy as competition.
Again “effective top managers”, again competition and the “invisible hand of the market”, and this is on the 14th month of the NWO, which confirmed the need for the state plan with the blood of Russian soldiers, in the conditions of economic isolation from the collective West and the debunking of liberal democratic mythology by it themselves, with which the banker Kostin so cheerfully began. Well, the icing on the cake is the proposal of the banker Kostin to increase the national debt.
What all this can lead to in the second year of the CBO, everyone can form their own opinion.
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