THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 2
January 2 in history
What happened on January 2: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1992, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Russian price liberalisation
2 Jan 1992 — Yegor Gaidar’s government freed most retail prices at once. Goods returned to the shops, but the savings Soviet citizens had accumulated when there was little to buy lost their value: prices rose about 2,500% over the year.
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