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

You're not always able to choose.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

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.

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.

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

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