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Maybe all the lights will go out. maybe toasters will start, you know, talking, maybe airplanes will fall out of the sky. it was a strange almost distraction. i mean, i'm not saying it wasn't a real concern. but the flipping of a calendar into a new millennium was a heck of a milestone to live through. you thought it would have been an occasion for a lot of awe and wonder maybe even spiritual if not just numerological reflection. but mostly we were just really freaked out about y2k. that was kind of the experience of december 31st, 1999. but it's interesting. one very large country where they ...

Yeltsin had a massive heart surgery. he spent most of his second term in office in and out of the hospital. he was increasingly rarely seen. when he was seen he was thought to be increasingly erratic. there were increasingly worries about the drunk boris problem. then surprise, new year's eve 1999. americans are all worried about y2k and russians are worried about do we have a democracy? and this was their first democratically elected president. but yeltsin had a plan for his succession. he announced that he wanted his prime minister to take over. and that happened. and now those of us who fol...

That next number and that looked like 00, we thought how are the electronics, how are the computers going to deal with that? maybe all the lights will go out. maybe toasters will start, you know, talking, maybe airplanes will fall out of the sky. it was a strange almost distraction. i mean, i'm not saying it wasn't a real concern. but the flipping of a calendar into a new millennium was a heck of a milestone to live through. you thought it would have been an occasion for a lot of awe and wonder maybe even spiritual if not just numerological reflection. but mostly we were just really freaked ou...

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 had been elected president of russia. before that, all soviet leaders had just been picked by the communist party. they had just been chosen internally b...

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...