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The Soviet Union - A Strange Mix of a Time
People used to call it Strana Chuges, the Wonderland. It's sort of an Alice and Wonderland kind of place because things got very, very weird at times. The 1990s that were a crazy decade. So many people fell into poverty,. millions of Russians fell into poverty while at the same time a small group of Russians became very rich, super rich overnight, the oligarchs. And yet you had freedom of expression, freedom of speech, you had television channels that were critical of President Yeltsin. Yes.
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