Re:A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics
by scottlocklin on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:29AM
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The average male lifespan in Russia in the 90s was 58.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC259165/
The economic policies Harvard (and to be fair, the Clinton administration, whose fixers put Yeltzin in power in 96 -talk of interfering in elections: overt, boasted about even, and gone down the memory hole) inflicted on Russia in the 90s literally killed millions of Russians.
So, yes, "basically genocide" is an appropriate choice of words.
Re:A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics
by sprafa on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:01AM
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I think genocide is a stretch/figure of speech.
Still Russia lost populating during the period which was unprecedented outside of famines - https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/09/02/dying-russians/
You’re right about Russian politicians. My only idea is why the hell did we help them if we knew they were dirty as hell? That’s the question really.
Of course, this also neatly ignores the responsibility of Russian politicians for their own country, which was hardly under foreign occupation at the time.