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Now with all things about 90s Russia we first need to start it in the late 80s USSR. The USSR for the majority of it's history could provide all of the basic necessities and amenities to its citizens especially since the reign of Stalin ended famine and want were mostly a thing of the past in the USSR but it wasn't until the 1980s when economic stagnation started to hit hard and economic reform was desperately needed to try and send the Soviet economy back on a growth pattern. Now instead of committing to the kind of policy of the Chinese in there economic reforms (Yes I know that the Americans moving the bulk of their industry there helped skyrocket the Chinese economy) the Soviets tried something much more different and much more retarded.
Now with all things about 90s Russia we first need to start it in the late 80s USSR. The USSR for the majority of it's history could provide all of the basic necessities and amenities to its citizens especially since the reign of Stalin ended famine and want were mostly a thing of the past in the USSR but it wasn't until the 1980s when economic stagnation started to hit hard and economic reform was desperately needed to try and send the Soviet economy back on a growth pattern. Now instead of committing to the kind of policy of the Chinese in there economic reforms (Yes I know that the Americans moving the bulk of their industry there helped skyrocket the Chinese economy) the Soviets tried something much more different and much more retarded.