Putin: “Russia’s economy will remain open, we won’t make the USSR mistake”

The Russian economy “will remain open” so as not to “repeat the mistake” committed by the Soviet Union. This was stated by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with a group of young entrepreneurs broadcast by the state media. Putin has ruled out a new iron curtain for his country despite the sanctions imposed by the West. When asked about possible agreements with trade partners such as China and India during the “closure” of the Russian economy, Putin replied that one could speak of a closed economy “in Soviet times when we cut ourselves off, we created the so-called iron curtain, we created it with our own hands. We will never make the same mistake again: our economy will be open. “