1989 : 1992 :: 2016 : 2020. You need a positive force as big as the internet to overwhelm the shitshow 1-2 punch that was getting lined up back then and us lining up now. The shitshow scenario still played out in former-USSR/Eastern Europe but the positive story overwhelmed it.
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Back then everybody outside the Soviet zone was very happy, almost deliriously so. Yay Cold War over, world peace around the corner, end of history is a good thing... not realizing the shitshow would spill out of the Soviet zone with Islamic terrorism as the primary vector
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But positive story (Internet) was big enough that it *still* seemed like a relatively best-case scenario. I’d wager even most Soviet zone people thought so, despite “losing” the Cold War.
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