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Just to emphasise:
Folks can't read past the headline. Truly this site has arrived.
Idk man I wasn't alive then.
Why the weird arbitrary time?
Because I didn't want people arguing about current events and the end of the Cold War seemed as good a cutoff as any.
Did it really end? The Soviet Union might have imploded, but the KGB just took the country over, turned it into a mafia state, and kept right at it.
I remember 1990. There was nothing arbitrary about it.