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In 1994, humanity used to living in a new unipolar world. Global geopolitical upheavals abroad 1980/1990 behind us, the West triumphed in the cold war, announcing the final victory of their values over all other ideologies. According to Fukuyama, this meant the "end of history", but the story did not even think to end!
In Russia, flew to its apogee "dashing 1990s." Casual workers continued to systematically kill the remnants of the country by renting expensive "Western friends' foreign policy positions on any issue. The then Minister of Foreign Affairs for its tractability received in the West the nickname "Mr. Jess", in contrast to its Soviet predecessor, "Mr. Know" (Gromyko).
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The main symbol of Russia's geopolitical retreat in 1994 was the completion of the withdrawal of troops from the territory of the former East Germany. This joyous for the Germans and the whole event was marked NATO parade in Berlin, where most amused Yeltsin:
The Germans helped lift the mood of the Russian leader. Bottoms up!
The final event on the geopolitical unit of the former USSR.
In 1994 the Budapest memorandum was signed, according to which, in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons to guarantee the territorial integrity of Ukraine. At the signing ceremony:
If the Ukraine in 1994, continued to draw "civilized divorce", then with Belarus has already started to build a new "community". The new president, while still quite young Lukashenko was both hands reintegration.
Here he takes the Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the German invaders in July 1994:
But in fact, and this sister republic of Russia goes.
Leaving the airport in 1994 based in Belarus, the pilots of the 121st Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment Sevastopol Red made this inscription on board the submarine TU-22:
Instead overclocked and shot the Supreme Council in Moscow began to sit disenfranchised State Duma and the Federation Council of the obedient.
But intellectuals enjoyed unprecedented freedom!
A kind of "certificate" that the country finally has "become free", was returning to her "living classic».
May 27, 1994 the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his wife Natalia Svetlova descend on the plane at the airport in Magadan after 20 years of residence abroad:
And the other "living classic" shot "Burnt by the Sun»:
Russian filmmakers continued to enjoy complete freedom and yet could not eat until recently forbidden fruit.
The Russian economy was still not as fun as in the movies.
In Black Tuesday October 11, 1994 the dollar a day has increased from 2833 to 3926 rubles:
Even the central streets of Russian cities resembled a flea market. Theater Lane in Moscow, 1994.
The most vivid memories of that time is the epic Ponzi scheme. In the first half of the year from any of the iron in the country could be heard advertising AO MMM.
The protagonist commercials MMM Lenya Golubkov was in 1994 Man of the Year, with ahead in this ranking for ten points of Russian President Boris Yeltsin:
In late July, the crash came. Millions of "not freeloaders, and the partners' left holding the bag. Someone without apartments. The central office of the MMM on the Warsaw highway, 1994:
Massive devastation depositors could have ended and insurrection in Albania of 1997, but all the steam of the people had already been launched in the early 1990s and still limited to individual acts of protest. At the Interior Ministry building in Moscow, August 11, 1994:
And in 1994, at the coolest mobile phones have already appeared!
In 1994, increasingly talking about high-profile contract killings and gang violence. Shooting on the streets - no longer a rarity. In the yard, "dashing 90»!
Typical scene of arrest of some gangs in Moscow May 13, 1994:
At the end of the year all the pathos of goofy, but peaceful life, "a new, democratic Russia" was defeated on the first Chechen war.
Begins almost everything as now want to solve the problem with Dudayev gantemirovskih hands of militias and volunteer tank. But this idea is completely inept and failed, had officially thrown into battle the Russian army.
Russian soldiers waiting for the order of 20 kilometers from the Chechen border December 11, 1994:
Do Achkhoi-Martan they are waiting Dudayevites, December 17, 1994:
But for someone th 1994 will be the best and unforgettable in a life full of hope, daring, and the first successes.
Man of the Year, of course, was Nelson Mandela. After 27 years in prison indomitable fighter against apartheid led South Africa to complete the process of peaceful transition to non-racial democracy. His triumphant election to the presidency was like the final chord of "global democratic revolution" abroad 1980/1990, which is over 5 years of regime change by more than 60 countries!
Unity and continuity of the country represents the picture, where President Mandela holding the hand of Vice President de Klerk immediately after the inauguration ceremony of May 10, 1994 in Pretoria:
South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg Whitney Houston November 10, 1994, photo Juda Ngwenya:
The main tragedy of 1994 was the genocide in Rwanda, when tribalism between Hutus and Tutsis resulted in a terrible massacre. The number of dead was 100 days on different data from 500 000 to 1.03 million people, of which about 10% were Hutu.
The picture with the crowd of Hutu militias, accompanied by a French military patrol.
As in the Balkans, the Western "peacekeepers" have played in the Rwandan tragedy solely shameful role, cowardly or indifferent by looking at the massacre of unarmed residents.
Wikipedia states that "the rate of killings in Rwanda five times higher than the rate of homicides in the German death camps during the Second World War. End the killing of Tutsis marked the onset of the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front. »
This is the only case after World War II, when the genocide was officially recognized by the world community.
Rwandan refugees:
In Algeria in 1994, was a civil war with the Islamists:
This little-known war will become a kind of forerunner of modern war with radical Islam.
One third of the Algerians were in favor of an Islamic state, one third - of the secular. The military took the side of the second and annulled the victory of Islamists in elections, which marked the beginning of years of armed confrontation.
Another great tragedy of 1994 - the death of the ferry "Estonia" Baltic Sea.
It sank on the night of September 27, September 28, in the crash were missing and 757 people were killed 95 persons of 989 aboard passengers and crew members. It is Europe's largest shipwreck in peacetime.
Even those who managed to leave the ship and get on rafts continued to die from hypothermia and shock:
The official cause of the disaster was the fact that locks the 50-ton colossus bow ramp / visor, did not survive the oncoming storm wave strikes. However, many still believe that the ferry was deliberately destroyed by sabotage, coupled with some secret cargo on board.
November 18 visor got from the seabed:
In Russia, flew to its apogee "dashing 1990s." Casual workers continued to systematically kill the remnants of the country by renting expensive "Western friends' foreign policy positions on any issue. The then Minister of Foreign Affairs for its tractability received in the West the nickname "Mr. Jess", in contrast to its Soviet predecessor, "Mr. Know" (Gromyko).
via
The main symbol of Russia's geopolitical retreat in 1994 was the completion of the withdrawal of troops from the territory of the former East Germany. This joyous for the Germans and the whole event was marked NATO parade in Berlin, where most amused Yeltsin:
The Germans helped lift the mood of the Russian leader. Bottoms up!
The final event on the geopolitical unit of the former USSR.
In 1994 the Budapest memorandum was signed, according to which, in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons to guarantee the territorial integrity of Ukraine. At the signing ceremony:
If the Ukraine in 1994, continued to draw "civilized divorce", then with Belarus has already started to build a new "community". The new president, while still quite young Lukashenko was both hands reintegration.
Here he takes the Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the German invaders in July 1994:
But in fact, and this sister republic of Russia goes.
Leaving the airport in 1994 based in Belarus, the pilots of the 121st Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment Sevastopol Red made this inscription on board the submarine TU-22:
Instead overclocked and shot the Supreme Council in Moscow began to sit disenfranchised State Duma and the Federation Council of the obedient.
But intellectuals enjoyed unprecedented freedom!
A kind of "certificate" that the country finally has "become free", was returning to her "living classic».
May 27, 1994 the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his wife Natalia Svetlova descend on the plane at the airport in Magadan after 20 years of residence abroad:
And the other "living classic" shot "Burnt by the Sun»:
Russian filmmakers continued to enjoy complete freedom and yet could not eat until recently forbidden fruit.
The Russian economy was still not as fun as in the movies.
In Black Tuesday October 11, 1994 the dollar a day has increased from 2833 to 3926 rubles:
Even the central streets of Russian cities resembled a flea market. Theater Lane in Moscow, 1994.
The most vivid memories of that time is the epic Ponzi scheme. In the first half of the year from any of the iron in the country could be heard advertising AO MMM.
The protagonist commercials MMM Lenya Golubkov was in 1994 Man of the Year, with ahead in this ranking for ten points of Russian President Boris Yeltsin:
In late July, the crash came. Millions of "not freeloaders, and the partners' left holding the bag. Someone without apartments. The central office of the MMM on the Warsaw highway, 1994:
Massive devastation depositors could have ended and insurrection in Albania of 1997, but all the steam of the people had already been launched in the early 1990s and still limited to individual acts of protest. At the Interior Ministry building in Moscow, August 11, 1994:
And in 1994, at the coolest mobile phones have already appeared!
In 1994, increasingly talking about high-profile contract killings and gang violence. Shooting on the streets - no longer a rarity. In the yard, "dashing 90»!
Typical scene of arrest of some gangs in Moscow May 13, 1994:
At the end of the year all the pathos of goofy, but peaceful life, "a new, democratic Russia" was defeated on the first Chechen war.
Begins almost everything as now want to solve the problem with Dudayev gantemirovskih hands of militias and volunteer tank. But this idea is completely inept and failed, had officially thrown into battle the Russian army.
Russian soldiers waiting for the order of 20 kilometers from the Chechen border December 11, 1994:
Do Achkhoi-Martan they are waiting Dudayevites, December 17, 1994:
But for someone th 1994 will be the best and unforgettable in a life full of hope, daring, and the first successes.
Man of the Year, of course, was Nelson Mandela. After 27 years in prison indomitable fighter against apartheid led South Africa to complete the process of peaceful transition to non-racial democracy. His triumphant election to the presidency was like the final chord of "global democratic revolution" abroad 1980/1990, which is over 5 years of regime change by more than 60 countries!
Unity and continuity of the country represents the picture, where President Mandela holding the hand of Vice President de Klerk immediately after the inauguration ceremony of May 10, 1994 in Pretoria:
South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg Whitney Houston November 10, 1994, photo Juda Ngwenya:
The main tragedy of 1994 was the genocide in Rwanda, when tribalism between Hutus and Tutsis resulted in a terrible massacre. The number of dead was 100 days on different data from 500 000 to 1.03 million people, of which about 10% were Hutu.
The picture with the crowd of Hutu militias, accompanied by a French military patrol.
As in the Balkans, the Western "peacekeepers" have played in the Rwandan tragedy solely shameful role, cowardly or indifferent by looking at the massacre of unarmed residents.
Wikipedia states that "the rate of killings in Rwanda five times higher than the rate of homicides in the German death camps during the Second World War. End the killing of Tutsis marked the onset of the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front. »
This is the only case after World War II, when the genocide was officially recognized by the world community.
Rwandan refugees:
In Algeria in 1994, was a civil war with the Islamists:
This little-known war will become a kind of forerunner of modern war with radical Islam.
One third of the Algerians were in favor of an Islamic state, one third - of the secular. The military took the side of the second and annulled the victory of Islamists in elections, which marked the beginning of years of armed confrontation.
Another great tragedy of 1994 - the death of the ferry "Estonia" Baltic Sea.
It sank on the night of September 27, September 28, in the crash were missing and 757 people were killed 95 persons of 989 aboard passengers and crew members. It is Europe's largest shipwreck in peacetime.
Even those who managed to leave the ship and get on rafts continued to die from hypothermia and shock:
The official cause of the disaster was the fact that locks the 50-ton colossus bow ramp / visor, did not survive the oncoming storm wave strikes. However, many still believe that the ferry was deliberately destroyed by sabotage, coupled with some secret cargo on board.
November 18 visor got from the seabed:
