What were the wild 90s like in Russia? / What was 1990s Russia like?
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2023
- Life in 1990s Russia: A Look at the Wild Decade and Its Crises
A crumbling economy followed by a financial crisis, mafia and mobster wars everywhere, coup d'etats and people working several jobs just to get by. Sounds like a failed state, right? Well, that was Russia in 90s, 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.
I was a Brit, living in Russia, during the 1990s, and it was pretty much as Anna has described in her excellent video, which brought back some memories for me, Some good. Some are not so good. The Russian ruble crisis was most certainly a challenging time - for the Russian people - myself included, as well as my close friends! And, the people it affected most of all...were the old age pensioners.
I'd imagine this happened all over the former Soviet Union in the 90s tough times. I was a 5yrs old in 1980 growing up in New Zealand, I was afraid and funnily fascinated by the USSR this inspired me to study Russian language and live abroad in Kyrgyzstan in later years the cold war in the 80s definitely had an impact on my childhood I'm glad common sense prevailed and no red buttons were pushed from both sides.
For us Westerners, looking back on it, the nineties were actually a pretty cool time to be alive. Even on tinder, "nineties kid" is a thing we all share. We had this kind of... collective innocence I suppose. We couldn't skip tracks without rewinding actual tape (that's where the word "rewind" comes from lol). We all listened to the same songs (or let's say, everyone knew them). We couldn't google anything. Here in Australia, there were only 5 television stations (and two of them had very poor reception). So you only got five if you were lucky, otherwise just 4. You couldn't stream anything. Not a single thing. There was no such thing as watching things on demand. You either had to get ready when the tv station aired something, or you'd miss it. We couldn't google anything. No internet at all. If you wanted to know something you physically had to make a trip to the local library.
But isn't the horrifying secret to all the great things we got through the nineties, we received through the exploitation of other nations.
Thank you Anna. Love that you are back on UA-cam. I have seriously missed your content.
Thank you, David! Working on some new stuff already ^_^
Lovely video, always happy to see my inspiration is still rocking those looks! Take care
Just subscribed. Amazing content. This channel deserves more subscribers.
Good video 😌
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I remember. 1990s lived through it. It's was realy veiled 90.
My girlfriend left Russia in 1996. She was not going to have her daughter grow up there. It took two years to fill out the paperwork and get a visa for the Netherlands. Her memories of it are so bad that she says she'll never even go back for a visit to her family.
That's a sad way to leave your own homeland and never even try to look at it. A pity
Thanks for such an informative video, would like to see a similar video on present day Russia.
Thanks, Antrix! Great suggestion. We should make one. TEAM!!
@@annaexplains Thank you so much!! TEAM!!!
Really hard times Anna...The collapse of the Soviet Union had ripple effect not only in Soviet Union but all over the world.In India,dramatic changes for bad took place.Simplicity,Honesty was gone and power balance of the world got disrupted.
Hi Anna your accent sounds English. Did you grow up in England? And have you been living in England?
Getting ready for this in the USA
Although I emigrated to S Korea back in 1999, I still possess Russian citizenship .Of course I have voted for V V Putin in every election ever since he entered in 2000, and I'm really glad that he's been doing what he has to do and keeping things in order. May God bless President Putin
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Capitalism was never the answer. Transitioning away from Socialism while the economy and the Political Party were in crisis had the obvious effect. Liberalizing to a Capitalist Liberal Democratic system during the 80’s sped run the disaster that made collapse unavoidable.
It was better to try and fix the Socialist economy and begin an era of anti Corruption and anti Nationalism. Why all the republics thought that breaking away and destroying the USSR was a good idea I don’t know.
It’s better to work with what’s there. Socialist life wasn’t awful and it’s not like American style Democracy really even improves life in anyway (just look at America) But yes becoming Capitalist, destroying Socialism, the USSR and the Communist Party was not the answer to Soviet problems that for sure did not need Western solutions.
So what if the Cold War continued it’s practically still going on today. All Russia and the former Republics gained was a worse life, Ukrainian brides and National irrelevancy.
As an American I can say that Western life really just isn’t what it’s portrayed as and it’s a scam. The Soviets really were better than us and instead of stopping at nothing to destroy the USSR we should have worked with the Soviets to perfect their system. That’s how the Cold War should have ended. America is so stubborn.
"Socialist life isn't awful" - how do you know? Have you lived it?
I have, and it was bad. Socialism just doesn't work economically, and it poisons human minds with lies.
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i lived in ASTRAKHAN for 2 years 2016-2018 , i believe that they still live in the 90's
So... early naughties by now then? I'm moving!
I'm curious to know if this situation was representative of the other former Soviet states following the collapse or if this is a moment in Russian history in particular
Grim all over. Some slightly better, some - much worse (torn by war).
The situation was kinda similar not only in the other former Soviet states but also in the rest of the former Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe.
It was pretty much like the "Wild East" for a time, if you had the right connections & were ruthless/ oportunistic enough, you could make a fortune. The Caucasus & former Yugoslavian states also went through to various wars, like the Chechen Wars, the Nagorno-Karabakh Wars between Armenia & Azerbaijan ( they´re recently started again fighting each other), Croatian and Bosnian Wars. In Romania, the regime of Ceaușescu was toppled in a bloody uprising. Other countries like Czech Republic & Slowakia, who were one state, seperated peacefully.
Not only the economies, but the entire social life of these countries went upside down, practically over night.
Most people really got it rough...
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I was born in Moscow in 82. Life under communism was shit. 90s were shit as well. I love Brat, epic movie!
you were 9 when the ussr collapsed, i doubt you knew much about 'living inder communism', sorry
@@crkn8771 I clearly remember not having toys or clothes,wearing handme downs. Standing in line with my mom. Living in one room and sleeping on the couch and my parents couch was 2 ft away, so I heard them getting it on. Losing a Lenin star pin and the teacher was questioning me why my parents didn't replace it. Then after communism was over it was still shit. So chill,privileged American child
Russia was horrible and was in turmoil in the 90s.
The conclusion for me is Me Putin saved you all ?
Yes
no, or not quite. 90s were improving a lot closer to 2000 without Putin being in power, and it's very wrong to mix the economic situation in 92-93 and let's say 98-99 into a single statement. Putin was lucky to get on the right tide in the beginning of 2000, and he had not even planned to stay in power forever
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Growing up in the 90s wasn’t bad if your dad was a businessman
I can't agree. Some very sad stories from my childhood involving murdered businessmen dads.
The 90s was a bad and dangerous time for businessmen in Russia. A lot of businessmen in Russia in the 90s were extorted and murdered.
@@johnm84 Yeah i should have said it was better because they didn’t have suffer but my family was extorted by gangsters in the 90s