In the 1990s, about 80% of the Soviet economy was liquidated.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
No source addresses the claim that about 80% of the Soviet economy was liquidated in the 1990s, and the extraction faithfully reflects the passage. The sources give related but different measures, such as output declines and privatization counts, which neither support nor refute a liquidation share.
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… The state has a strong role to play. He was baptized secretly as a young man and, you know, has been Orthodox ever since, but it's hard to deal with Putin without understanding the context. Yeah, in the 1990s, about 80% of the old Soviet economy was liquidated, and while the nominal president was Boris Yeltsin, people like Uri Gaïdar and Anatoly Chubais, both Jews, both connected closely with the United States, especially Harvard University, were making policy. …
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Context. One source reports that Soviet-country gross national product fell 20% between 1989 and 1991, which measures output decline rather than the share of the economy liquidated.[1]
Context. Another source reports that net material product fell 9% in 1989-90 by Khanin's estimates, a different period and measure from the claim's 1990s liquidation figure.[2]
Context. A source reports that ownership of 15,000 firms was transferred from state control via the voucher program from 1992 to 1994, which is a privatization count rather than a share of the economy.[3]
Context. The claimant's passage is the speaker's own words and is not evidence; the sources do not establish what 'liquidated' would mean as a measurable share of the economy.
Sources
3 sources: 1 primary, 2 not rated
- 1Consequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Uniononline.norwich.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 2api.pageplace.de · preview · DT0400The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic Systemapi.pageplace.de · not rated · cited for: context
- 3History of the Russian Federation - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
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