> freedom from often horrible and incompetent central Russian management.
Russia does just fine without most of those pieces, whereas the pieces struggle to be viable.
The management was not 'Russian', by the way. It came proportionally from all of the Soviet republics, more or less. When the Union collapsed, they mostly stayed in Moscow.
Russia does just fine without most of those pieces, whereas the pieces struggle to be viable.
The management was not 'Russian', by the way. It came proportionally from all of the Soviet republics, more or less. When the Union collapsed, they mostly stayed in Moscow.