" After the Soviet Union fell, it didn’t seem like that in Eastern Europe" it was pretty bad after USSR collapsed there were organized crime groups with members

" After the Soviet Union fell, it didn’t seem like that in Eastern Europe" it was pretty bad after USSR collapsed there were organized crime groups with membership in high thousands. Some of the richest oligarchs in Ukraine and Russia came from those groups including Rinat Akhmetov in Ukraine and a good number of people from putin's inner circle.