Yeltsin’s “dashing years” and their impact on financial position and spiritual-moral condition of Russia have not yet been objectively, accurately and comprehensively estimated in our historical literature and in mass media, although it was written a lot about this. The author tries to reveal properly, what external and internal forces were behind the Yeltsin’s “reforms” and determined their nature and direction of.

I come from the era called “dashing nineties”, I represent the team that is believed to have demolished the Soviet Union, destroyed the economy, led our people to poverty. Today they swipe us without trying to understand the essence of the processes, which took place in that period.