A crumbling economy, mafia and mobster wars everywhere and people working several jobs just to get by. Sounds like a failed state, right? Well, that was Russia in the 1990s, right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And this is how we remember the 1990s - a time known as the era of relative peace and prosperity for the rest of the world.
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