21 October 2021
A top Russian university has destroyed its only copy of a thesis on Marxism written by a former student who is now Joe Biden's pick to head a major bank regulator.
Republicans on the Senate banking committee are furious that Saule Omarova, 55, is refusing to turn over her Moscow State University dissertation on Marxism and revolution...
Moscow State University only keeps such works for five years, said the official...
It was titled: 'Karl Marx's Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital'.
'Ms. Omarova has time to attack Republicans in an interview with the Financial Times, but she can't be bothered to comply with a Banking Committee requirement that nominees — regardless of their political party or ideology — submit copies of their writings,' said Amanda Gonzalez Thompson, spokesperson for Senate Banking Committee Republicans.
'We certainly hope she reconsiders so senators have the information necessary to fulfill their constitutional duty to advise and consent on appointments.'
Omarova did not respond to requests for comment...
She told the Financial Times: 'I was in the Soviet Union, where there was no academic freedom, and this was a mandatory assigned topic.
'What I wrote in that paper has nothing to do with what I believed in then or in what I believe in now.'