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Marc Rich is dead.  Did you know who he was?  Most people don't, or if they do, all they know is that he was some kind of big shot donor to the Clintons, and that Bill Clinton pardoned him at the last minute before he left office.  Sleazy, sure, but only the tippy-tip of the iceberg.  Marc Rich was one of those scavengers who looted Russia.  This sort of thing is no surprise to some of us, but to those on the Confused Right, it's hard to reconcile condemning Slick Willy for this pardon with all those "I stand with Israel" icons.  Steve Sailer tells us all about it:

Marc Rich and the Rape of Russia

The death of metals and oil wheeler-dealer Marc Rich in Switzerland, who was pardoned by Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, has led to some rather bland notices in the newspapers, such as this one in the Wall Street Journal. The New York Times' version is a little more forthcoming, but fails to mention his sizable role in the Rape of Russia in the 1990s.
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One reason nobody remembers this is because, despite the convenient alliteration, the Rape of Russia isn't a thing, not in the way that, say, the Rape of Nanking is a thing. The plundering of the ex-Soviet Union in the 1990s, which was egged on by the Clinton Administration, Wall Street, Harvard, and other highly respectable American institutions was misreported at the time as a triumph of the free market. And now it's mostly being forgotten. (Read the whole thing HERE.)