It was a harrowing account of
@AUL LAD and the wife's escape from Moscow after Boris Yeltsin
Russians would tell you Gorbachav was mad and overnight he told the Russians they were now free and western .
Glanbia /Tirlain as a company has more cost accountants and chartered accountants employed than the entire of Russia had when Gorbachov waved his magic wand and brought what the Russians call high bullshit (Perestroika )--absolute chaos and misery .
i spoke to one steel worker and asked him how is it going and he could not tell me who owned the factory complex of 26,000 workers .
he did not know where the raw materials came from and he did not know where the steel went or how much it was sold for .
nobody knew anything and nobody had ever asked .
there were factory directors but not as we know them --many were employees who had been injured and could no longer work and they were demoted DOWN to directorship and i also met some east German co directors who Previously worked in a meat factory in waders as there were so many worms at their feet and one side of their body was facing the blast chiller and they were made do repetitive meat cuts for years with a boning knife or air powered chainsaw .
they all had massive arthritic knuckles from years of repetitive movements now banned for health reasons --when the wall came down they found them selves directors of now a western co bought by Glanbia and i met them and brought them on a tour of Roscrea pig factory where they were shocked by the technology and automation and controls --they said Germany does not have anything like this space age factory .
they were fish out of water now and they knew they were an accident of history and all they wanted was a chat and a few beers --they had no pretensions to fulfill any management role none at all .
Yeltsin was owned by the oligarchs and a hopeless alcoholic --Putin was a sober fit do as your told replacement who shocked them by being a patriot and saving Russia from these evil bastards who would never count the millions they robbed and starved to death .
