Before Putin took power in Russia, the country was ruled by seven bankers. An unofficial sphere of power above political figureheads and elected officials. Rumour has it that they were installed and controlled by the West, and that they reported to their employers in London, New York, etc. The sale of oil and minerals was controlled by a few, while the population of the former Soviet Union suffered increasingly.
When Putin became president, he played along for a year or so. He met with his Western colleagues and let them believe that he was one of them. After a while, he gathered the bankers and gave them three rules of conduct:
– You may keep everything you have acquired (stolen).
– But do not interfere in politics.
– Treat your employees well.
This was soon followed by a schism with the West. Meanwhile, living standards and development took off in Russia. Many Russians describe the 1990s with horror, with poverty, famine, alcoholism, suicide, crime, etc. This largely explains Putin’s popularity among the Russian population, as he stopped the downward trend and reversed the direction. Today, Russians have high purchasing power, and alongside raw material production, more technologically advanced industries are also developing.
So, was the system of seven bankers a Russian invention? A kind of primitive Slavic model for controlling and exploiting an enslaved population, extracting industrial products and raw materials, and allowing foreign companies to sell the products and retain most of the profits. Not entirely unlike the serfdom or Soviet rule of old?
If the system had been indigenous to Russia, profit should have been higher and reinvested in the country to some extent. Even mines and infrastructure must be developed to secure production, and the population must see a positive future in order to maintain morale. But that was not the case. Russia and its population were exploited greedily and brutally. We must take all this on board and understand it in order to be able to locate the country’s political and cultural position today.
If the banking system was not Russian, where did it come from?
Who knows? Perhaps it was a simplified model of how the Western world actually works?
