The Yeltsinists are creating a project to whitewash the 90s and denigrate the USSR
Russian liberals will attempt to create a positive image of the 1990s in public opinion.
This is evidenced by the “405 Days of Reforms” project launched by the Gaidar Foundation with the participation of the Yeltsin Center, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
As reported by the website "Novy Den ," at a press conference in Yekaterinburg by the executive director of the Yegor Gaidar Foundation, Pyotr Gaidar, the son of the former prime minister, the project's authors "were looking for a way to return people to that time" and decided to create a kind of retrospective living journal online.
In turn, the director of the Yeltsin Museum, Oleg Lutokhin, says that the organizers plan to invite ex-Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Shokhin, the “father” of privatization Anatoly Chubais, to Yekaterinburg.
And the Minister of Economy of the Russian Federation in 1992-1993, Andrei Nechaev, laments that “unfortunately, there are a lot of myths about that time - the damned 90s and so on.”
“Our task is to show what the real situation was and partially dispel the myths that were unpleasant for the government of Yeltsin and Gaidar,” Nechaev noted.
He also called for “dispelling myths about the USSR.”
“Society is very different, our task is to give people facts and additional arguments, because what we hear from the zombie box is a very one-sided assessment of this period. Young people who experienced these events in childhood or adolescence, or who did not experience them at all, simply do not know the situation. And from this same ignorance myths about the USSR are born. It is important to dispel them, to tell what the socio-economic system was like in the USSR,” says the ex-prime minister.
He also stated that the country has experienced a serious “rollback” from the economic policies of the 90s: 70% of GDP is produced by state-owned or state-controlled enterprises, and the issue of state price regulation is being seriously discussed.
“If this is done, it will end with a return to the deficit that we said goodbye to 30 years ago,” Nechaev believes.
Yeltsinites are creating a project to whitewash the 90s and denigrate the USSR.