Western Promises

Comment: A quiet, cold night in a Siberian village. The snow is falling, the villagers are sleeping…But suddenly a huge Mickey Mouse appears, walking right into the village. A scary imagination to be one of the sleeping villagers. After the fall of the Soviet Union people had no chance to adapt to the sudden changes. They were thrown into a new form of society and most of them had no idea how to cope with it. The terrible period of the 1990ies began where the oligarchs rose while the people were starving.