The Engineered Collapse of the USSR: How the KGB Stole $50 Billion
00:00 The disappearance of Soviet physical gold01:16 The 1987 Law on State Enterprise and NTTM centers03:54 Decree No. 1405 and capital flight via cooperatives05:44 Switch to world prices and CMEA trade collapse07:07 The rapid growth of the shadow economy07:54 External debt explosion and credit boycott08:26 Soviet foreign banks and the invisible economy09:49 Offshore architecture and the FIMACO shell company10:46 Artificially inflating reserves and misleading the IMF11:41 The fate of KGB and Communist Party assetsHow did a superpower spanning 11 time zones bankrupt itself without firing a…
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