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