Downshifter country

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Why did German Gref call Russia a downshifting country? Why such information is voiced by the one who previously said that the people should never be given power?

Gref in recent days simply cannot be appeased. Today he completely dispersed in a revelatory fervor.

Help: The term " downshifting"Comes from the English down shift" downward movement ".

Gref ranked Russia among the "downshifting countries"

See also: Gref was injected with truth serum

The era of hydrocarbons is in the past, and Russia is among the countries that are losing - “downshifting countries,” said German Gref. Reforms are needed, otherwise "we will be very far behind", warned the head of Sberbank

Head of Sberbank German Gref, speaking at the RANEPA at the Gaidar Forum, said that Russia was among the countries "that are losing." Gref urged to change all state systems, including the education system. Gref spoke about the crisis in the oil market, which, according to him, was caused by "radical changes in consumption." “The era of hydrocarbons is in the past. As the Stone Age ended not because the stones ended, so the oil age is already over,”Gref said.

“The future has come earlier than we expected it. We are already in this future today. Welcome to the future! - invited the head of Sberbank.

According to Gref, the question of how much oil will cost is not so important. "We will be very far behind if we do not change the concept of our social approach", - warned Gref. “We lost the competition and ended up in the camp of the losing countries, the downshifting countries. The countries and people who have managed to adapt and invest in this in time are the winners. Those who did not succeed will lose very much ", - concluded the speaker. According to Gref, Russia is threatened by a "colossal income gap" compared to the "winning countries."

- zinc

PS. These are revelations. This is how the education system was changed, moving away from the Soviet model to the current one. And now it suddenly turned out that the current one is no good. Although when the Unified State Exam was introduced and the RAS was "reformed", it was said that such reforms would lead the education system to degradation. At the exit, we got the situation as in the famous video with Dobkin and Kernes "Come on with a new Misha, it's all bullshit!"

The position of the "observer" is also quite indicative, where Gref, as it were from the outside, discusses the crisis of the existing model, to which he himself had a hand when working in the government as minister of the Ministry of Economic Development, and subsequently leading Sberbank. Here, at the most opportune moment, I recall Stalin's well-known telegram to the "observer" Mehlis about the disaster of the Crimean front.

I received your code number 254. You adhere to the strange position of an outside observer, not responsible for the affairs of the Crimean Front. This position is very comfortable, but it is rotten through and through. On the Crimean front You are not an outside observer, but a responsible representative of the General Headquarters, responsible for all the successes and failures of the front and obliged to correct the mistakes of the command on the spot. You, together with the command, are responsible for the fact that the left flank of the front turned out to be extremely weak. If “the whole situation showed that the enemy would attack in the morning,” and you did not take all measures to organize a rebuff, confining yourself to passive criticism, then so much the worse for you. This means that you still do not understand that you were sent to the Crimean Front not as the State Control, but as a responsible representative of the Headquarters. You demand that we replace Kozlov with someone like Hindenburg. But you must know that we do not have the Hindenburgs in reserve. Your affairs in Crimea are not complicated, and you could handle them yourself. If you used assault aviation not for side business, but against enemy tanks and manpower, the enemy would not have broken through the front and tanks would not have passed. You don't need to be a Hindenburg to understand this simple thing, sitting for 2 months on the Crimean Front.

Actually, this is how Gref pretends (in about the same way as Kudrin) that the problems of the existing model have developed apart from him and he seems to have nothing to do with it - on the contrary, he is now in the forefront running to expose what he himself had a hand in. As for the "losing country", I again remembered the unforgettable Alfred Koch with a similar diagnosis in the late 90s.

Alfred, what meaning did you put into the title of the book - "Sale of the Soviet Empire"?

“I’m not. This is a title coined by my publisher.

They say that privatization in Russia was wild in nature …

- She wore such a character everywhere. Please: Czechoslovakia - they are also dissatisfied with the results of privatization. Nowhere, not a single country in the world is the electorate satisfied with the results of privatization.

And what did Russia really get from privatization?

- Russia actually got a stock infrastructure from privatization, an opportunity to trade shares, an opportunity to attract investments through this instrument, Russia received a layer of private owners, Russia received money … uh-uh … about 20 billion dollars, and it seems to me that this is enough.

What in the way of privatization was, in your opinion, unacceptable?

- Well, I would have refused the vouchers, if not for the pressure from the Supreme Council. (For some reason it seemed to us that the vouchers were Chubais, not Khasbulatov. - A. M.)

Often the names of enterprises appear in the press, which were allegedly purchased for a very small part of the real cost, and in this regard, they say that the people were simply robbed

- Well, the people were not robbed, because they did not belong to them. How can you rob someone who doesn't own it? And as for that on the cheap, let them give specific examples.

Well, for example, Norilsk Nickel. If I'm not mistaken, it was estimated at $ 170 million, and they say it is worth many billions

- Well, let those who speak, many billions and pay for it. I would like to look at those who will pay at least one billion for Norilsk Nickel, which at the time we sold it, had losses of 13 trillion rubles.

The opinion is expressed that there is a catastrophe in Russia and the economic future is illusory. What do you think?

- I think so too.

Can't you see the light at the end of the tunnel?

- Not.

How do you predict the economic future of Russia?

- Raw materials appendage. Unconditional emigration of all people who can think, but do not know how to work (in the sense of digging), who only know how to invent. Further - the collapse, the transformation into a dozen small states.

And how long will it last?

- I think, for 10-15 years … You understand … During 70 years, when the world economy was forming, Russia, or rather the Soviet Union, was, as it were, outside, developing separately, according to some of its own laws. And the world economy was formed without the Soviet Union. And it is self-sufficient, there are sufficient resources, everything is there. And now Russia has appeared, but nobody needs it. (Laughs.) In the world economy there is no place for it, its aluminum, its oil are not needed. Russia only interferes, it crashes prices with its dumping. Therefore, I think that the fate is sad, of course.

Do you predict the arrival of investments in Russia, will it be to the extent expected?

- No, because no one needs Russia (laughs), no one needs Russia (laughs), as you will not understand!

But Russia has gigantic economic and human resources, and to work for the Russian market …

- What gigantic resources does Russia have? I want to debunk this myth at last. Oil? It is much warmer and cheaper to mine in the Persian Gulf. Nickel is mined in Canada, aluminum - in America, coal - in Australia. The forest is in Brazil. I don't understand what is so special about Russia?

But to trade with Russia, with a huge country, where there is a great need to buy, buy, buy …

- In order to buy, you need to have money. The Russians cannot earn anything, so they cannot buy anything.

In a word, you do not see any prospects?

- Me not. (Laughs.) Well, if Primakov sees, let him work (laughs), as soon as I stopped seeing them, I resigned from the government. (It was not he who quit, but he was fired. On August 11, 1997, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Koch flew to America with his family on vacation. On August 12, they suddenly announced his resignation. back to the US Despite the obvious scandal, Chubais habitually lied that this resignation was “planned.” Koch wants to convince us that before his dismissal he was a patriot, an enthusiast, a statesman, then he sold Svyazinvest and from August 12 he suddenly became a pessimist And if there is a girl who believes in it, Koch should marry her. It will be very convenient for him to live with such a trusting person. - A. M.)

How do you think the economic policy of the Russian government can turn? Will there be a return to old methods?

- What does it matter? No matter how you turn it, it's still a bankrupt country.

And you think that no management methods will save Russia?

- I think it's useless.

Could there be reforms in the usual sense of the word acceptable to Russia?

- If only Russia refuses endless talks about the special spirituality of the Russian people and their special role, then reforms may appear. If they become isolated on national narcissism, and look for some special approach to themselves, and think that rolls grow on trees. They admire themselves so much, they still admire their ballet and their classical literature of the 19th century, that they are no longer able to do anything new.

But maybe Russia has its own way?

- The economy does not have its own way. There are laws.

Here are the Polish experience, the Chinese experience … Could it be useful for Russia?

- Yes, absolutely. I read an article in the Financial Times the day before yesterday that government officials stole $ 25 billion in grain subsidies in China, and this experience would be very useful in Russia. True, there are no 25 billion there. And the Polish experience has nothing particularly positive. This is a myth propagated by the IMF. What special have they done? How did they declare themselves on the world stage? Did you give out any product? Well, they live for themselves, they dig potatoes.

If we proceed from your view of tomorrow's Russia, then a very bleak picture is being created …

- Yes, joyless. Why should she be happy? (Laugh.)

Well, I just wanted the long-suffering people …

- Long-suffering people suffer through their own fault. Nobody occupied them, nobody conquered them, nobody drove them into prisons. They knocked on themselves, put them in jail and shot themselves. Therefore, this people deserves to reap what they have produced.

Do you think that Yeltsin's reforms have completely failed, or will they still affect the future of Russia? After all, a lot has changed in Russia over the past ten years

- Yes, we tried to change. I think that it will affect in 200-300 years.

How big is the interest in the West in what is happening now in Russia?

- Interest is very restrained. No more than Brazil. Russia must finally part with the image of a great power and take some place alongside Brazil, China and India. Now, if it takes this place and realizes its role in the world economy, then it will be of use.

That is, it means that one must humbly acknowledge one's true place in life and go to school?

- Certainly! Instead of trying to invent the hydrogen bomb with three grades of education.

In your opinion, how did all this happen, were there any prerequisites for this?

- It happened just out of stupidity, which led to the catastrophe and the recognition of the debt of the Soviet Union. It was stupidity, $ 90 billion was hung on a very weak economy, and further disaster was just a matter of time. The West deceived Russia, the West promised to restructure this debt and did not restructure it. The West promised economic assistance - and did not provide it, and left Russia face to face with this debt, which, in general, it did not do. I think this is an element of a special strategy - a strategy of weakening Russia, a strategy of the West.

So, Russia's economic troubles come from the West, is it so?

- The economic troubles of Russia - primarily from the seventy years of communism, which, roughly speaking, defiled the people's soul and the people's brains. The result is not a Russian person, but a homo soveticus who does not want to work, but at the same time his mouth opens up all the time, wants bread and circuses.

To what extent does the West understand that chaos in Russia can be a threat to the whole world?

- I, frankly, do not understand why chaos in Russia can be a threat to the whole world. Is it just because she has an atomic weapon?

That's it. Isn't that enough?

- I think that in order to take away atomic weapons from us, an airborne division is enough. One day land and take all these missiles to hell. Our army is unable to offer any resistance. The Chechen war has shown this in a brilliant way.

What is your niche in Russian life?

- There is no niche. (Chuckles).

- zinc

It is not difficult to see that Gref largely duplicates Koch, which once again shows that the 90s have not gone anywhere and are still firmly seated in the heads of the domestic "elites." But in fact, could anything else have been expected from the "Gaidar Forum"? The bad guy died, but his work lives on.