Anatoly Chubais Quotes

• 40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Cia Agents, Criminals, Thieves

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Ukulele, Trying, Killing

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• The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Real, Stupid, Book

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• It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Unions, Study, Economic

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• I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Cities, Joining

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• Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Killing, Economy, Marxist

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• Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Should Have, Young, Scholar

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• Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Long, Fundamentals, Institutions

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• If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Mean, Experts, Accepted

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• 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.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Thinking, Russia, United States

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• You're not always able to choose.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Able

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• The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

  Anatoly Chubais

  People, Demand, States

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• Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Russia, People, Microsoft

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• There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Country, Two, Style

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• During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Years, Eras, Prison

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Hate, Russia, Kind

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• There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Understanding, Able, Use

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• You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Country, Russia, Able

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• The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Russia, Years, Gone

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Political, Firsts

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• Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Kind, Instruments

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• 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.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Needs, Kind, Language

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• Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Russia, Support, Way

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• 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.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Russia, Political, Red

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• I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Team, Government, Cities

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