11-08-2008, 08:21 PM
Quote:Perhaps a 100% jump in the population of the planet has something to do with it?
It has nothing to do with it. There was tragical decline in Russian population (-500 000 per year) since 1990. And mass crime appeared here exactly at those days. Also there was mass invasion of different destructive sects which came from nowhere. Chechens obtained freedom and suddenly realized that they are chechens and immediately started to blow their women on the russian streets in the name of Allah. Jump in the world population (in Soviet too) was even during Soviet rule, but anyway, nothing similiar took place. Soviet idea was internationalism and "friendship of nations", nobody was allowed to think differently. When USSR collapsed, everyone started to think that he is the hub of the universe.
The same took place in ex-Yugoslavia. Under Tito's rule there was peace. Then everybady started to slaugther everyone. Now they organized weak dwarfish states with comical unspecified "independence" (from who exactly? from each other?), some of them are very poor and the only buisness they have is to sell drugs, slave-prostitutes, terrorist's activity etc.
And please, my political inclinations have noting common with Soviet Empire.