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Saturday, January 28, 2012

An Unreconstructed Kremlin 

posted by Joe @ 16:29

The mental leap to freedom is hard for those programmed into the ideology of the revolutionary left.
“When I was a teenager growing up in Chicago, I went through the standard teenage rebellion,” Bill Browder told me one afternoon in the Hermitage office in London, during the first of several conversations I had with him in 2011. “But instead of growing my hair long and joining a rock band, coming from my specific family, I decided I was going to become a capitalist. There was nothing that would piss off my family more than that.”
Bill Browder is CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, and...
was the largest capitalist in Eastern Europe for a while, but he’s now known as an international justice crusader. In the past two years, he has singlehandedly waged an intercontinental lobbying campaign to get Western governments to pass a suite of sanctions and travel restrictions on Russian officials involved in the conspiracy to arrest, torture, and murder Browder’s thirty-seven-year-old Moscow-based attorney, Sergei Magnitsky, who had uncovered a $230 million tax fraud pegged to companies that had been expropriated by Russian officials.
If you have not heard or read about Magnitsky’s rectitude, bravery, and suffering, I urge you to right away.

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