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  • I mean Ukraine has the opposite problem, soviet created a system where only having connections with people in power matters. And trust me, you’d rather be discriminated by wealth rather by not being part of someone’s family.

    Post-soviet, majority of economy was state-controlled, lots of money go through state via taxes. This created a class of oligarchs who gained their wealth controlling state owned factories and leeching money to their personal accounts. These people own TV channels and elect their politicians on populist leftist platforms. Ofc they don’t deliver, but hey, lots of money are spent on social net, got stolen along the way to the end user.

    Naturally, oligarchs have no interests in other people to be able to open up their businesses or whatever. So smart people in Ukraine do look up on how capitalism works, cause more private money would circulate in the country, the faster things will change.