Из #труднобытьбогом
> все они почти без исключений были еще не людьми в современном смысле слова, а заготовками, болванками, из которых только кровавые века истории выточат когда-нибудь настоящего гордого и свободного человека.
Из интервью Фридмана
> When the USSR collapsed, I remember at the end of 80s, beginning of 90s, I started to meet some foreign investors and foreigners. All were fully convinced that the Soviet Union would overcome its problems because of a very convincing argument: They said “you have a very well educated population, you have a huge amount of natural resources, you have technological achievements in areas like rockets or atomic energy or military techniques or all these kinds of things. So therefore you will very quickly reach the level of developed countries.”
> It didn’t happen in Russia, because the mind-set of people or cultures, is not based on a piece of paper which is called law; it is based on history, tradition, beliefs, religion, going back hundreds and hundreds of years. The culture of any society is probably the most nurtured parameter of any society. To change the culture, for you and me as cosmopolitan people who travel internationally from one place to another, know that it’s impossible to change culture quickly. It’s possible to make a new leader but if his culture is not respectful of the society, all his changes or her changes will be very temporary, very artificial.
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