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ivhilaire on Dec 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet

Russia is a kleptocracy and all these 'tests' are just another way to steal money. Kleptocratic billionaires can not keep being billionaires without such 'projects'.

8bitsrule on Dec 25, 2019 [–]

Did you ever wonder where those former Soviet citizens - now oligarchs - picked up their capitalist skills?

ivhilaire on Dec 25, 2019 | [–]

They didn't. No selling and multiplying. Only taking and dividing.

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