Former Soviet Union hellhole, 2004:
Saakashvili’s administration quickly realized this was because it had been the cops causing most of the trouble all along. A remnant from the Soviet era, they’d treated the roads as their personal piggy bank, administering their very own brand of expensive justice at will and causing mob-style chaos as they did. When they were taken out of the equation, not even a hint of disorder was left because they had been the disorder.
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Freedom ain’t free, folks:
Keep reading to learn about the time the US Armed Forces needed 813 men to chop down a tree.
Also stuff about the CIA’s sponsorship of modern art, which, weirdly, I was just thinking about the other day. Thanks, Cracked!
