something else on december 31th, 1999, they had something else totally crazy happen to them at the turn of the millennium. new year s eve is a huge holiday in russia. it s a huge party there. everybody that day was gearing up for the celebration even bigger than usual because it was 99, but then shock and surprise, with no warning, at noon on new year s eve, 1999 in russia, their president got on tv, it was a surprise broadcast, and he said good-bye. he said good-bye. i m quitting effective immediately. boris yeltsin randomly quit as president of russia on new year s eve, 1999. it was a total shock. i mean, that said, russia had been through a lot of shocks at that point, 1989, of course, the berlin wall fell, 1991, the soviet union collapsed. that year 1991, boris yeltsin
freaked out about y2k. that was kind of the experience of december 31st, 1999. but it s interesting. one very large country where they didn t end up freaking out all that much about y2k on december 31st, 99 while america and the rest of the world was worried about that problem, one place this they ended up not all distracted by that problem, they ended up not freaking out about that as the clock ticked toward midnight, was russia. because russia was distracted by something else on december 31th, 1999, they had something else totally crazy happen to them at the turn of the millennium. new year s eve is a huge holiday in russia. it s a huge party there. everybody that day was gearing up for the celebration even bigger than usual because it was 99, but then shock and surprise, with no warning, at
ended up not freaking out about that as the clock ticked toward midnight, was russia. because russia was distracted by something else on december 31th, 1999, they had something else totally crazy happen to them at the turn of the millennium. new year s eve is a huge holiday in russia. it s a huge party there. everybody that day was gearing up for the celebration even bigger than usual because it was 99, but then shock and surprise, with no warning, at noon on new year s eve, 1999 in russia, their president got on tv, it was a surprise broadcast, and he said good-bye. he said good-bye. i m quitting effective immediately. boris yeltsin randomly quit as president of russia on new year s eve, 1999. it was a total shock. i mean, that said, russia had been through a lot of shocks at that point, 1989, of course, the berlin wall fell, 1991, the soviet union collapsed. that year 1991, boris yeltsin