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Many stabilization programs have failed in the past, but unless some attempt is made to cure its hyperinflation, Russia could go the way of Weimar Germany following World War I. At that time, when the West refused to help rebuild Germany's economy, the stage was set for Hitler's rise. Conjuring a Russian Hitler may be farfetched, but a Russian dictator with nukes surely would distract Clinton from his single-minded focus on rebuilding America...
Exhibit B is Germany following the First Would War. The victorious Allies--in addition to forcing Germany to accept complete blame for the war--demanded huge monetary reparations. This undermined Germany's economy, causing staggering hyperinflation, and destroyed the popularity of the democratic Weimar regime that signed the War Guilt Clause and paid the bill...
...nameless, timeless city; a circus and a brothel populated by fringe figures who, naturally, are less hypocritical socially and sexually than the police, the church and the bourgeoisie; a score that features the music of Kurt Weill; lighting and a camera that pay homage to the whole Weimar school of cinematography...
...Weimar Russia. Close students of Russian affairs in several countries are warning that the West's business-as-usual approach to the collapse of the Soviet Union is shortsighted and potentially disastrous. They see an epochal struggle ahead to ground democracy and a free economy in the former Soviet republics, and they want to pull out the stops to help it succeed. Think how dangerous it would be, they advise, if Russian fascists and militarists, * battening on anger and hunger, seized power from Yeltsin and his fellow reformers. Yeltsin himself has warned that "certain countries" only "talk and talk" about...
...economic catastrophe of epic proportions. Hence, everyone is a dissident. Several of Yeltsin's former proteges and allies are turning against him, exploiting the widespread resentment of shortages and the fear of hyperinflation. The government, says an official, is printing a billion rubles a day. That figure makes "Weimar Russia" sound all too accurate as a description of what is happening here -- and what could happen next...