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“You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.”
“You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.”
“The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.”
“These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.”
“You're not always able to choose.”
“For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.”
“The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.”
“I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.”
“Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.”
“The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.”