By Dmitry Orlov. Although this is a gloom and doom prediction for the coming decade, it is one that many informed people see as very possible if action is not taken soon to avert these events. Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. He was an eyewitness to the Soviet collapse over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late eighties and mid-nineties. He is an engineer with a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics.