when soviets started to tumble and fall, it was jungle out there. whole of my high school years i spent fighting, as everyone else. my brother almost got incarcerated once. he broke some policeman's arm when he was only 18. my dad had to bribe everyone, including judge. youth's most favourite type of fight was "massovka" as russians called it. it was when large groups (150-250 from each group) would fight each other. generally these were school vs. school, neighborhood vs neighborhood, or rarely uni vs. uni LOL damn, those were strange and creepy times.