Think it's easy to be a currency speculator? The dollar goes up like crazy, one day, then another, then a third. And at this moment you have to get up and go to sell. So I thought in 1998. But this time it will be worse. The economic crisis in the Soviet Union was very extended in time. Year by year, there were fewer goods in stores, more and more products fell under the "coupons". "Norms" were set for meat, sugar, butter, cheese, eggs, and so on.