The 90s were a difficult time for the country and its people.

Hell, it wasn't just the time period.

It was the 90s.

The phenomenon that will forever be remembered as one of the most difficult periods of the 20th century in Russian history right after the October Revolution, the purges of 1937 and World War II.

The Soviet Union had just collapsed and the new government didn't know exactly what to do.

Factories that for generations were supported by the state started to close

and millions of people suddenly found themselves jobless.

The seemingly impervious moral standards of the Soviet man crumbled with an unexpected ease

almost overnight and the crime rate skyrocketed.

It was a difficult time, but it was also the time of opportunities. Those who capitalized on the newly discovered free market prospects of the best are now at the top of the Forbes charts.

Those who decided to stay honest people, embraced the free market at the face value and tried to ride the

way of starting new businesses.

Many more remained ordinary workers, not willing to take any risks and simply thankful

to have a job.

And then there were us, the bandits, the mafia, Bratva, or the Brotherhood.

It was easy money, and that alone was enough to make people join.

Why slave offer a man who'd pay you pennies if you could just make a monthly visit to him,

along with a few of your bros, and make him pay you ten times more.

Threaten his wife or daughter, kick his employee's teeth out, poor gasoline all over his table and

his fancy new suit and he would quickly find himself willing to negotiate a deal.

It wasn't just robbery, no, it was a bit more complex than that.

By entering a deal with us, the man was also paying us for the lack of

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