• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It already happened, in the early 90s, when Yeltsin rode a tank up to the Moscow Parliament and started shelling it.

    The USSR latest from 1922 to 1991, give or take a few years depending on how you want to count it.

    Dengism, in China, kicked off in earnest at about the same time (Tianamen Square was largely a Maoist reaction to capitalist land reforms).