i will refer to the outstanding sociologist and russologist anatoly livin, who pointed out that thereexamples when democracy and rapid economic growth, economic development coincided in time, these are the usa, in the 19th century, and several european countries, eastern european countries. already in our time, i will quote livin: you can create any democracy if you have 3 million square miles of territory to give to your population, so you don't have problems like peasants revolting against the aristocracy, you don't have problems with poverty at the bottom, you don't have problems with ethnic minorities because you just killed them all. levine goes on to say that the european countries that had their economic breakthroughs in the 16th century, like britain, or in the 19th century, like other countries, were not democratic at all. britain was an oligarchy, ruled by the aristocracy and the commercial classes. all the others european countries at that time were also either oligarchies, such as france or belgium, or autocracies, such as germany. in asia, according to levin, the countrie