The demise of Boris Berezovsky by his own hand at the weekend will be exploited by the anti-Putin contingent for years.
Berezovsky was the consummate insider-turned-entrepreneur. His tenure as a member of Yeltsin's inner circle positioned him to become one of the leading oligarchs in that first wave of emerging Russian super-capitalists.
His mentoring of Putin unfortunately had an effect that Berezovsky could not have foreseen. Instead of becoming a pliant puppet of Berezovsky's largess, Putin unleashed a surprise on Berezovsky and all the other rising oligarchs.
He unleashed something that we in the Nations of Virtue claim to be all about; the rule of law.
Suddenly the state, acting on behalf of the people, was telling the oligarchs how things were going to work, instead of the other way around.
That led to a massive exodus of Russia's super-rich, including Berezovsky.
Which in turn led to the long-term campaign of America's super-rich to vilify Putin by whatever means possible, a campaign that continues unabated to this day. After all, the heresy that a government can boss the super-capitalists around has been expunged in the West for generations.
Who is this Russian upstart who threatens to upset the apple-cart?
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