

In the same vein, social-democratic reform in Europe was a release valve to deter more radical, soviet-backed movements from gaining strength.
Yet another reason for the fall of the USSR to be a tragedy; it removed any incentive for western-capitalist governments to even pretend to care about workers.
I choose to believe Xi Jinping personally cut a glass roofpane with a comically large diamond, was lowered into a minefield of lasers to perform outrageous gymnastic moves, and swapped a jade antique with a bag of mahjong tiles to trick pressure plates, all before silently escaping and flying back to China in a waiting J-36.