Well, there are similarities. Russia had collapsed the last time the prices on oil were released [1] during a slowdown of economy. And it was pretty scary, cons

Well, there are similarities. Russia had collapsed the last time the prices on oil were released [1] during a slowdown of economy. And it was pretty scary, considered to be one of the times at which the world had come closest to a world nuclear war [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83