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It has always been a shitty dog-eat-dog world. Wars and coups were all the rage until the 70s and 80s, UN be damned. We'll look back at the anomalously quiet decades in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution most of us grew in and remember them as the most peaceful (and democratic) period of our lifetimes.