Reporter gets angry and tells us the REAL news

Kalinka Flashmob in Kaliningrad, Russia

Some more Kalinka -

And some more Maria Zakharova (she who dances the Kalinka in the above video) -

Maria Zakharova, in the video above, tells of terrible times of hunger and deaths in Russia [in the 90s] - that, she stresses, they will not go back to. If you wonder, as I do, what it was like during those times, here are two quotes from people living there then:

"For adults it was bad. A lot of people started setting up businesses as we were moving towards capitalism, a lot of criminals emerged, a lot of businessmen, politicians etc were getting killed everyday. We also had a war in Chechnya where a lot of young guys died. Corruption was pretty much the norm, the country was living in anarchy, with criminal bosses ruling over their territories. A lot of people who could not adjust to the new way of life became homeless. Streets were very dirty, a lot of government funding was going straight into pockets of corrupt authorities instead of being spent on needs."

"But out of everything that had happened during it the worst thing by far, in my opinion, was that we as a nation had allowed ourselves to be genuinely convinced that the Cold War is over, that America is our friend, that the West has our interests at heart too and is interested in mutual prosperity. They had just not cared. At all. They won Cold War. They weren't interested in Russia being weak, because it already was such. Yeltsin's incompetence was the reason behind all of bad aspects of 90s."

https://www.reddit.com/r/russia/comments/3krdm8/what_was_life_like_in_1990s_in_russia/

Some more on this subject here -

Survival in Times of Uncertainty: Growing Up in Russia in the 1990s

https://www.sott.net/article/147683-Survival-in-Times-of-Uncertainty-Growing-Up-in-Russia-in-the-1990s