Around 1990, George Soros (György Schwartz) brought his Open Society Foundation - and its offspring - to Poland, Russia and other East European Communist countries. He and
Jeffrey Sachs introduced "Shock Therapy" - Free Trade (ie Open Borders, ie imports), Privatization and Deregulation.
In more recent years, both Soros and Sachs have turned against the "Washington Consensus". Soros comes across as a chivalrous knight with a Robin Hood agenda; to the extent that even I have been in two minds about him.
- for years, Larouche and ex-Larouche writers have homed in on Soros as the Mr Big of Speculation, who undid the Communist regimes via his "philanthropic" foundations which organized a "civil society" army of idealistic Lilliputian volunters; and who, in the West, ploughs his profits into New Left causes such as Radical Feminism, Gay Rights and Open-Border Immigration. A lot of Larouche literature indulges in name-calling, and is thereby unusable in serious research, but ex-Larouche writers such as F. William Engdahl maintain higher standards.
- American "patriotic" circles, whose webpages clogg Google's hits on Soros. Their ideoligical line and their resort to vulgar, vitriolic, abusive language renders their material unusable. It takes a skilled internet researcher to find ways to "weed out" their material when doing Google searches.
Through such a "weeding" process, I have accumulated some solid material on Soros and his ties with Khodorkovsky, Rothschild et al., which I present below.
What upsets me about Khodorkovsky, the other Oligarchs, and their western backers,
is the betrayal of the long-suffering Russian people. We encouraged them to throw off totalitarianism but, when they did, instead of befriending them we sold them into slavery. Unconscionable Oligrarchs - had no qualms about seizing the assets of the people and leaving them destitute.