The break-up of the Soviet Union that occurred in 1991 after the failed communist experiment in Russia was somehow mystically expected to lead to the formation of a democratic system of government in that country. Instead, it lead to its exact opposite, a regime that is no different than the one that existed in old Czarist Russia in the 19th century before the communist takeover now under the strict, one-man, control of Vladimir (“Tsar”) Putin as its head.
Addendum 12/17
America lost the opportunity to have a positive difference in the outcome of the communist breakdown in Russia because it itself had become infested by the Communist plague through its Democratic Party organization.