The fact that, in Russia, the EBRD invests its capital where banks and private companies do not venture and that – as a result of having, like many local and international speculators, taken its chances in the financial lottery that has done even more to ruin this country – it has occasionally suffered heavy losses, would leave us cold, were it not for the fact that such activities conceal an appalling catalogue of theft from the people of Eastern Europe.
Qu’en Russie, la BERD place des capitaux là où les banques et entreprises privées ne se risquent pas, et qu’elle y ait parfois essuyé de lourdes pertes - pour avoir, comme de nombreux spéculateurs locaux et internationaux, joué au casino financier qui a encore plus ruiné ce pays - ne nous émouvrait pas si, derrière de telles activités, il n’y avait le pillage effroyable des populations de l’Est de l’Europe.
