Boris Akunin: “The plumber is shocked”
“I know that many people shake at the mere mention of Yegor Gaidar’s name, but for me this is a man who moved the domestic economy from rotten socialist rails to new, capitalist ones, and we are, at the very least, rolling along them. Otherwise, they would have gone downhill, into famine and civil war. And this opinion has not changed after reading the book. But my God, how ridiculous, stupid, pathetic, and sometimes shameful a historical performance looks when you look behind the scenes...