The BBC: ignoring criminal consequences of an era
In its "Russia's bitter taste of capitalism", there is an omission of the major consequence of the restoration of capitalism in Russia and the USSR, which is that the restoration of capitalism in the former Soviet Union took more lives than the Iraq and Syrian wars put together: 1.9 million excess deaths in Russia alone in 1990–95; around 4 million for the USSR in the 1990s.
Sources:
– Vladimir Shkolnikov and Giovanni Andrea, "Population Crisis and Rising Mortality in Transitional Russia’, in Cornia and Renato Paniccià, eds, "The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies", Oxford 2000, p. 256; Michael Marmot, "The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects our Health and Longevity", New York 2004, p. 196.
– Jospeh Stiglitz's Globalisation and Its Discontents, 2002
Then add the plunder of the wealth and the rise of the oligarchs.
Compare that with the way the BBC deals with and keeps repeating an event like Tiananmen Square massacre, for example.
In its "Russia's bitter taste of capitalism", there is an omission of the major consequence of the restoration of capitalism in Russia and the USSR, which is that the restoration of capitalism in the former Soviet Union took more lives than the Iraq and Syrian wars put together: 1.9 million excess deaths in Russia alone in 1990–95; around 4 million for the USSR in the 1990s.
Sources:
– Vladimir Shkolnikov and Giovanni Andrea, "Population Crisis and Rising Mortality in Transitional Russia’, in Cornia and Renato Paniccià, eds, "The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies", Oxford 2000, p. 256; Michael Marmot, "The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects our Health and Longevity", New York 2004, p. 196.
– Jospeh Stiglitz's Globalisation and Its Discontents, 2002
Then add the plunder of the wealth and the rise of the oligarchs.
Compare that with the way the BBC deals with and keeps repeating an event like Tiananmen Square massacre, for example.
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