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Anyone old enough can remember when Boris Yeltsin was stumbling around, drunk as a skunk & the other russians would pretend that everything was fine.
Now its your turn USA - and remember what came after Yeltsin
At least he didn't have his own media outlet.... "hic, I order a radio broadcast, ....right now!... I know it's 2am... I want.. I want the bestest, geatestest ... USSSSSR.. sSSR... I want the moon on a stick! Yes! ..Hic... Give me it. Give ME the moon, NOW!.... What? No! I dshidn't just Shay anything if the sort...yeh, the shmoon, moonsss, moonsess. Wodka? Oh loveshly thanksh....now what's was I sayinsh?..."
Swan lake enters the chat....
Didn't he have Russia leave the USSR.
Russians also describe 1990s Russia as an economic wasteland where all of Russia's wealth and resources were gathered up by oligarchs. So yeah, pretty apt analogy.
IIUC, the last years of the USSR, and the 1990s, had relatively low world oil prices.
Fuck, I thought this was bad.
When Yeltsin passed, the average alcohol consumption worldwide fell by about 10%.
Vodkas Yeltsin was an outlier adn should not have been counted