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I think the oppression was sort of secondary and that the most important thing to keep was the corruption.
In fact, I think that that was exactly how they each sold the reforms to the rest of their respective governments - by convincing the politicians that they could implement some measure of capitalism without losing any of their privilege - that in fact, if they played it right, they could do even better collecting bribes from private business owners than they ever did siphoning off public funds.