Well, yes. The Albanian Lotto Riots of 1997 are still remembered, many Albanians lost their shirts over it. People made money through the free markets after the

Well, yes. The Albanian Lotto Riots of 1997 are still remembered, many Albanians lost their shirts over it. People made money through the free markets after the fall of communism, but there wasn't much of a banking system yet or experience with investments, so Ponzi schemers jumped in to fill that need. When these schemes failed, there was rioting that the police and military suppressed only half-heartedly (they had lost hard-earned money themselves), so local gangsters took it on themselves to restore order and became warlords in the process. If this sounds like a big mess, it was. English Wikipedia even calls it a civil war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War