Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland to plan harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws,
Once the dust settles and the war ends people in the new Russian territories are going to be significantly better off materially than those left in the rump Ukrainian state.
It's a different hell. They are only being plundered by their national bourgeoisie and don't have to deal with global capital on top of that. Nobody is going to do an IMF structural readjustment programme to Novorossiya, in fact Russia might invest in reconstruction of the region to win hearts and minds and discourage insurgency.
Once the dust settles and the war ends people in the new Russian territories are going to be significantly better off materially than those left in the rump Ukrainian state.
If the cities there wouldn't be completely reduced to rubble and if Russia wouldn't do the same antisocial reforms.
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It's a different hell. They are only being plundered by their national bourgeoisie and don't have to deal with global capital on top of that. Nobody is going to do an IMF structural readjustment programme to Novorossiya, in fact Russia might invest in reconstruction of the region to win hearts and minds and discourage insurgency.
It has various remnants of the USSR like free universal healthcare (including dental), but they are slowly chipped off by capitalists.